Problems with my new g0 q6700..
Hi all.. So last night I took out my e6600, cleaned off the AS5, and installed the g0 q6700 that arrived. Prior to doing this, I had installed lawry's g0 200(4/6?) modified bios on the mb, and was content with it working OK.
So when I booted the box, I went into the bios and started looking at the hardware monitor page. I think it was like 1.21 or 1.23vcore by default, and temperature was 24-25c at idle on my water. I started by mildly overclocking, and got it to post at 333mhz*10 at 1.45vcore. I didn't go into the OS at all, just sticking in the bios.
Then I upped the vcore and went up to 366x10. Still posted fine. Then did 400x10, and did 1.50vcore. Black screen, no post. After several hours of clearing the CMOS many, many times, and doing so without the battery in the mb, I finally got my bios back. I decided to go back to 333x10 and see if my os worked, testing the OS for the first time.
Bad news, nope. It would start booting, give the windows xp splash screen, then bluescreen immediately, and reboot. I couldn't tell what the msg was, since it rebooted so fast. Safe mode did the same thing. Then I tried Vista Ultimate 64bit, which I had on the same hd in a dualboot scenario. Same thing.. It would die shortly after splashscreen.
I was thinking worst case scenario.. something happened in the hd, and it corrupted the OS. K, so I formatted (reluctantly, since there was some stuff I didn't have backed up), and went to install XP SP2. It would finish installing the console/text portion of the OS, and when you reboot to have it go into the GUI, it would reboot constantly. Broke.
Testing the memory with memtest86 showed that there was no errors after an hour of crunching, back at normal 2.66ghz, with auto vcore. I tried upping the voltage to the cpu and it still made no difference. I also upgraded the mb bios from lawry custom to 2206, which had no impact or change on functionality, or lack thereof.
So I'm kinda stumped. I'm going to take out the q6700 tonite and pop my e6600 back in to see if it works. I don't know if the problem is the mb or the cpu may be a lemon, or got messed up while I was testing for higher oc? Either way, i'm frustrated.
I'm happy that other people posted pics with their g0's working on our mb, so at least I know mine SHOULD work. But I don't understand why it's not.
i killed my mb and new core2quad :(
Well, I took off the cpu, and was shocked to see what happened. It looks like there are ~25 charred pads on the CPU, and the corresponding pads on the MB are charred as well.
I was able to clean it up a little bit, and some of the substance came off as well when I scraped at it with a knife. However, it leaves little marks where I scrape, so I don't want to do that.
I'm figuring when I was cleaning the board, some as5 cleaner made its way between the chip + mb, and oxidized the connections when the board supplied it with power. I don't know for sure, cause I've never seen anything like this before.
I took the chip slightly better than what you see in the pics, and put it on the board and put my waterblock on the cpu. I was able to actually see the board+cpu POST, but due to my absolutely WONDERFUL luck, the pump on my water reservoir decided to die on me.
Being too afraid to see if it worked, cause I went into the HW Monitor and saw the temperature just rising without stopping, I shut it down. As you guys with watercooling solutions know, the cpu block is very small, and isn't designed to run very well without any kind of flow.
So I guess my plan now is to toss the motherboard, get a p35 (any suggestions?), and go air cooling for a little while. I don't have the extra cash to spare now to get a whole new water solution, which i desperately need, cause the pump going is just the latest of problems that have been plaguing my crap boxset water solution.
If the CPU still causes me problems when I get the new mb, I'll cross my fingers and HOPE that intel takes the chip in for warranty. I just don't know how to even approach them about what I see on the cpu without having them void my warranty for misuse or something.
Sigh. Stuff like this always happens at the worst times. I leave on a cross continental vacation in less than a week, and I really need this time to research plans, options, and things to do. GRRRRRR. </rant>
pics:
http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/1...2007275dt6.jpg
^- look at the bottom pins, which lined up to the left pins on the image below (mb)
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3...2007276sr1.jpg
^- look at the left part of the board.