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Faulty Phenom 9950?
Last weekend i did something rather silly
I bought a Phenom 9950 but could not get it working on my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H). Stupidly when checking the cpu compatibility list for the board i was looking at revision 2 - my mobo is revision 1 and does not support this cpu :/
Yesterday i bought a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 which does support the Phenom 9950, but needs the bios to be updated using and older cpu first.
So today installed my 5600+ and have tried 2 different bios' - F5 and F6B, but when i install the the Phenom i get no display I have tried 2 different fx cards, on my 4870x2 the fan speeds up and slows down and a red light flashes on the back of it ... the other card is a smaller fanless one.
If i use the the 5600+ cpu it boots fine - i connected my os drive to see if xp64 and vista64 would boot even though the mobo had changed and they did.
So is my cpu dead? Never had come across a faulty cpu before
Last weekend i did something rather silly
I bought a Phenom 9950 but could not get it working on my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H). Stupidly when checking the cpu compatibility list for the board i was looking at revision 2 - my mobo is revision 1 and does not support this cpu :/
Yesterday i bought a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 which does support the Phenom 9950, but needs the bios to be updated using and older cpu first.
So today installed my 5600+ and have tried 2 different bios' - F5 and F6B, but when i install the the Phenom i get no display I have tried 2 different fx cards, on my 4870x2 the fan speeds up and slows down and a red light flashes on the back of it ... the other card is a smaller fanless one.
If i use the the 5600+ cpu it boots fine - i connected my os drive to see if xp64 and vista64 would boot even though the mobo had changed and they did.
So is my cpu dead? Never had come across a faulty cpu before
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