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dumb question of the day?

miceormen

miceormen

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When i install my new q6600 that i just ordered from ocuk :)

Can i just drop it in and windows will instantly recognise that I have an awesome new quad core or will it shrivel and die in a series of bsods?

See what i mean by the dumb question.
 
if it help

mine was recognised and worked staright off, BUT was getting a definate performace problem, a few stuttereing screens and things, so i formated anyway
 
Shouldn't be a problem, mine worked pretty much straight away apart from the minor hitch when I flashed the BIOS, but on a DS3r you should be able to just plonk it in and away you go, but I would clear the CMOS

Naud
 
yeah you shouldnt have a problem just dropping it in but tbh i would reformat, means you wont get any driver issues or anything like that, and yes take the bios battery out, but only for about 10 secs then put it back in.
 
icey_haj said:
Take out the battery and leave for around 30 mins?
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:eek: As long as that! If that is the case, as well as taking the battery out, you might wish to disconnect and reconnect from the motherboard the large multi power connector (24 pin if my memory is working correctly). You are inside the case anyway taking out the battery. I always do this if I have BIOS problems when building kit,
 
I would reformat hole thing. I did the same going from a 3700 to 4800x2 and for some reason the x2 was running at the same speed as the 4800x2
 
No need to reformat with a new CPU.

Just clear the CMOS (it'll be a set of jumpers beside the battery) and select the Load Optimized Defaults upon entering the BIOS. Windows will probably reinstall the CPU drivers automatically on first boot, and after a restart everything should be hunky-dory.
 
Cob said:
No need to reformat with a new CPU.

Just clear the CMOS (it'll be a set of jumpers beside the battery) and select the Load Optimized Defaults upon entering the BIOS. Windows will probably reinstall the CPU drivers automatically on first boot, and after a restart everything should be hunky-dory.
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thankyou sir for reassuring my aspirations of lazyness.

spent the last two days revising for my exam this morning. q6600 is my treat to myself lol :) don't want to be ******* about with reformats tbh.
 
If its XP Pro you use as O/S and you get any issue's with the system even after a cmos clear you can selet just a repair install which will just replace the main system file's
 
As has been said before, there shouldn't be a need to reinstall everything although it's always a good idea.

Shutdown, Clear BIOS (switch and/or battery), swap chips and boot back up.

Done it hundreds of times, single cores to dual, dual cores to quads, 65nm to 45nm etc.
 
Right, found my cmos jumper, funnily enough labelled on the mobo as 'cmos clr' :)

What do i need to attach to it and then do in order to clear said cmos?

cancelled q6600 btw. :P went and picked up an e8400 instead. *hides*
 
Well you're supposed to use a little jumper cap to short the pins, but a flat-bladed screwdriver or a butter knife usually does the trick. The two pins just need to be shorted with something metal for 5-10 seconds.
 
right then. being the lazy git i am i didnt clear the cmos at all, couldnt get the battery out cos my gts is in the way (and ******** to trying to manouvre that thing out of the case after the blood sweat and tears it took to get in) and i forgot to use the butter knife. doh.

but up and running now. all i needed to do was convince the bios that in actual fact it should be running at 3.0ghz (not 2.07? - changed multiplier to 9, upped fsb to 334 + correct memory timings)

I could get used to this 3ghz stuff. :)

thanks guys
 
It's odd that people put to little faith in windows. I despise the flippin thing, but I'd trust it not to fill it's pants at the sight of a new CPU, I mean they all just add 1's to 0's nothing more.
I went from an AMD5600+ on an M2N32 to a Q6600 on a Striker II extreme and had no probs at all after a couple of reboots. I did actually ultimately reformat that one because I got a new slipstreamed version of XP (naughty, but not morally wrong if you own a legit copy). THAT installation went from the SIIE to the X48TDQ6 without even noticing. Uninstalling the ASUS guff was as much as I needed to do.

Worst case is a no boot, but safe mode and a driver purge (device manager and remove everything it'll let you remove....NOT disable, you'll shoot yourself in both feet if you do that).


Mind you my linux has gone from a k6s5a with an athlon 1800XP, to a XP2800+ on an Nforce ASUS board to a P4 on another asus board, and in all that, the sole issue was it wondering where it's friend the SIS900 NIC had gone, bless. New Linux box in sig WAS a ground up job, but mainly cos it was 64bit and also so I could amaze myself with it's compilation speed ;)
 
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