To all Phenom users with x64bit OSes

[Lightman]

Thats sucks!

Wish I was closer and staying at my own place. Then I could come over or you could come over and check the chips out in 5 MBs to see what exactly is faulty.

I tested someone elses Phenom 9600 BE today morn who thought the 3rd core was faulty at stock on a AM2 MB (ASUS Crosshair) and it turned out the chip ran fine but had compatibility issues with the BIOS and would give a BSoD at or during boot. Flashed older better BIOS to get it running fine.

Agree!

I will test them during weekend on MSI K9A2 Plat V2 just to make sure, but the one I sent back 3 weeks ago was found to be faulty.

On top of that I've already tested different BIOSes for my mobo with these Phenoms with no major difference for stable clocks.

I probably need to wait for B3

[Aussie FX]

Lightman, are you doing all this on your DQ6 mobo?

When mine was replaced I fired it up went into bios for about 5 secs - Freeze.

Now when I go into the bios I do whatever I have to as fast as I can and try to save it before it freezes. Sometimes I have to reset 5-10 times just to set a voltage. There is no way I can go in and twiddle around with ram timings or anything that takes some thinking over.
But in windows (Vista 64) it's as stable as a rock.

Just wondering if it might be the motherboard My 1st one didn't play up like this.

I see you're going to try a K9A2. I would be interested to hear the result.

[Lightman]

Lightman, are you doing all this on your DQ6 mobo?

When mine was replaced I fired it up went into bios for about 5 secs - Freeze.

Now when I go into the bios I do whatever I have to as fast as I can and try to save it before it freezes. Sometimes I have to reset 5-10 times just to set a voltage. There is no way I can go in and twiddle around with ram timings or anything that takes some thinking over.
But in windows (Vista 64) it's as stable as a rock.

Just wondering if it might be the motherboard My 1st one didn't play up like this.

I see you're going to try a K9A2. I would be interested to hear the result.

Yes, I'm running all on DQ-6.

I had BIOS freezes with first (faulty) 9600BE and to some extent with my 9500 on early F3A/B revisions.
I did try my new 9600BE @2.2GHz and it's stable. Anything above it's NOT (regardless of voltages)!

What is wired is that the other Phenom 9600BE (MPMW 0750) is stable up to 2.42GHz on my mobo as well as my first 9500 .

I'm going for a long trip tomorrow so probably test on MSI will need to wait till Saturday morning. Then we will know more