Fried a core?

minicle

minicle

minicle

Associate
Joined
2 May 2007
Posts
262
I have been running a mild OC on my c2d e6600 for couple of months.

I recently installed a couple of new cards to my pc, swap out the gfx for a 4870 and dropped in a sound card. Today I thought I would run a few benches to see what impact the new gfx was having. 3dMark came in damn low, 8.5k, so I started to have a root around, when I noticed this in cpu-z

whoopsta1.jpg


Now correct me if I am wrong but that doesn't look too healthy does it ? :(
 
Maybe a bios or driver issue:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/244311-10-only-core-work-e6600
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/246778-10-high-usage-core-e6600
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=126988

It seems it can be caused by lots of things including botched graphics driver updates when changing cards.

Make sure everything is in their slots okay including ram. Clear cmos properly (battery out, cup of tea etc) load up bios defaults.

As a last resort it seems most people have fixed it with a clean install of xp.


Even people who thought they have borked their cpu and returned it have had the same problem with their new cpu so although it may be a core that has gone, it is highly likely to be something else.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom