Quote Originally Posted by sesdave View Post
0404 very stable for me with my q6600.- some extra volt setting on PPL from 0202. I never had any SATA disk issues and still dont. Also ran it with an e6850 at 3.6 on stock volts - not ES. Would boot upto 495x8 with more volts but not prime stable although I didnt try very hard. Make sure u use ezflash and a usb drive - I would avoid Asus update as there are loads of MB that flashes have failed on using it. It did for my P5K deluxe but probably because I hadnt reset the overclocks to default. Always safest to flash outside of the operating system. Following this set of instructions may look like overkill but should keep you safe http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=314
Well I had a long night last night till 6am this morning, Phuuu!! Flashing this bios was a drag to say the least!!! and to tell the truth not worth it for me. I could NOT use a AFUDOS because the bios was to big for a floppy and I could not get my bios to see my flash drive as bootable or see it at all to use ezFlash. So here was where I did my first hail mary, and pulled my cmos bat. cleared it gave the beer break wait and did a minimal set up just to get back into Vista 64. and flashed from there from file.
I still have a long way to go because I did a hail mary boot after I finally got the bios in and back to the settings I thought were close to my old setting as my OC profile was not working with the new bios. Here was where it really started to s*ck!! I corrupted my OS. That was enough for me and to BED I went.
Now today, I have my OS back on and have been trying to dial this thing back to normal with little luck I may add I seemed to have gained 10c on my CPU temp and lost some performance in benchmark test too. I have not added any Vcore just added my Memory timmings and voltage back to 2.2 and it seems stable in prime @FSB350 X9 cpu Multi giving 3.15 GHZ. I have had little luck getting my memory up to speed yet but I am still working on it.
I know my water cooling system is not up to par but I have been looking for a replacement, I would think I could see my e6600@3.6 on even a poor water cool setup? But its fighting me tooth and nail. I also would think a few volts here and there and I should see a good clock but somehow not with CPU temps pushing 65C with nothing added yet. I must be missing something? I just have to get the temp back down before I can think about a overnight prime test yet.

Any advice would be great.
Thanks again