2 out of the 4 cours dead...again! Is it my pump?

StayPufft · 09-19-2009, 07:24 PM

So about a months ago my pump died and it ended up frying my gpu but I thought I shut down my system fast enuf to saved my cpu(I was running a cpu and gpu block at the time). So after buying a gtx 280 and a new pump and new tubes and of cores cleaning out my rad and cpu block I booted up my system and went into the bios which said that core 2 and dead( core 2 and 3 had gray writing and exes in front of them). So it turn out I did do damage to it damn......

I called up Intel and got a replacement cpu in about a week. I put it in and it was working great! Super fast and was running about 28°C but core 2 was always about 5 digress lower than room temp? (I just figured it was a bad sensor).

Anyways last night when I went to bed I just left my pc on so it would time out and go to sleep. This morning when I started it back up it went to a screen that said it had shut itself down to protect itself and to "check hardware to make sure new hardware is installed properly" well then I new that something was wrong and went to the bios again and what do you know cores 2 and 3 are burnt out again!

I have now idea what happened this time! Its a brand new pump so I really don't think it failed and it stared right up when I woke the computer up, I watched the pump turn on (Ive gotten into the habit of watching my system on start up just to make sure its working).

Another thing is the cpu clock speed seemed to fluctuate between 1600 and 2400 ( I was the Everest widget). Now I really don't know why this was happening and thought I'd deal with that tomorrow.

Since this has happen twice now I thought I should get some help ! I thik it might be the mother bord but I honestly don't know

So I really need help and any help is extremely appreciated!

Sorry if this is the wrong section but I don't know where else to post.

Thanks again.

faster3200 · 09-19-2009, 08:28 PM

First, specs? Also the Intel section might be a better place for this.

Second, I really doubt a pump could cause an electrical issue that would cause things to die. If it is an electrical issue it is undoubtedly being caused by something other than a failed pump (mobo, psu?) If you mean the pump died and everything overheated then that can be fixed by setting a system shutdown temp and GPU safe mode. Let's not focus on this since I think this could cause a large pointless debate, like it has before.

Third, how do you know the cores are dead? I have never seen a bios that indicates this. If yours does I am curious what it is. What I have seen however is a bios that indicates turbo multis to use when a proc only has certain cores loaded. Check you proc in CPU-Z.

CPU clock fluctuations are due to EIST and CxE. They are a "feature".

Diverge · 09-19-2009, 08:45 PM

Maybe your motherboard got damaged from the first overheat, and took out the new cpu?

Try use some voltage monitoring software, and have it log data over time. Boot ups, sleep, waking up, ect... maybe during those transitions it over volts your cpu.

StayPufft · 09-19-2009, 08:57 PM

Hi, ya i think you might be right and is the motherboard.
heres some more info:

I hope this helps and do you know if intel replace my cpu again?

Kurz · 09-19-2009, 09:11 PM

Call up your motherboard manufacture.
Tell them their motherboard is frying your cpu.

Overheating is prevented by the CPU sensors.
Now a days you can Pull off the heatsink and the Cpu will keep running.
Just it'll throttle itself.

Did you touch your volts at all?

Spawn-Inc · 09-19-2009, 09:12 PM

go into bios and make sure all your cores are enabled. when i switched from a single core to my q6600, only 1 core was enabled. i was like WTF... but i fixed it easily in bios by enabling them.

Diverge · 09-19-2009, 09:17 PM

Also, I'm not sure if you did this, but clear your bios just for the hell of it. (Write down or save whatever settings you need and manually reset them after clearing.

StayPufft · 09-19-2009, 09:18 PM

I looked in bios but like I said it show 4 cores but core 2 and 3 are grayed out and have exes in front of them. The motherboard probably what's doing it. Would evga do anything if I told them what's happening?

StayPufft · 09-19-2009, 09:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diverge

Also, I'm not sure if you did this, but clear your bios just for the hell of it. (Write down or save whatever settings you need and manually reset them after clearing.

Ya, I tried that the first time this happened and eve updated my bios but no luck.

strike · 09-20-2009, 01:18 AM

I´m sure it´s the mobo
try to put the CPU into other mobo and be sure
after calling