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Jinjur

Jinjur

Jinjur

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Hey all....

I have been running a Q6600 for a couple of years now and it has been happily sat at 3.6 Ghz.

Never really budged above 60 as i rarely load it up heavily.

Then tonight, when i did a restart.....the computer crapped out and reset itself back to stock speeds.

It also hung at the BIOS level for about 1 minute when it started to do the memory tests (see screen shot)

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I have tried removing the memory sticks one by one and altogether and it still hangs.

I also tried removing additional HDD's form the psu incase that had went faulty and couldnt supply the voltage for the o/c. Nope.

After the minute of hang, it proceeds as normal (albeit at stock speeds) and windows runs fine.

Being a Gigabyte board, i have the bios settings saved for the o/c and once re-applied.....after about 5 seconds of hanging at the memory test, the system restarts.

Has something died?

Tell me its not my CPU.



:(
 
Hey,

thanks for the suggestions.

Not sure what you meanby clearing the CMOS. It has reset to default values itself.

And to be clear, it does this with no memory in it

corrupted bios? How on earth does thar happen. How would that let it boot at stock speed but not oveclocked?

Come on, please help
 
You say you have been able to get into windows eventually using stock speeds. Is it stable when it does this (does it crash eventually)? Also, have you had a chance to run a stress test (OCCT, Intel Burn Test etc.) and check the system is stable in this mode?

Have you tried each of the memory sticks (on their own) in each of the memory slots? It could be a duff RAM slot on the motherboard.

How are your CPU and chipset temperatures at idle and under load? (you should be able to use everest ultimate to find out all this info).
 
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