HELP - it's overclocking by itself!?!

[TheBigCheese]

Hi guys

I've just bought an Asus P5B Deluxe & C2D 6600.

When I've switched it on for the first time it's come up with several error messages...here's the situation...

First screen at switchon

Screen 2

BIOS Settings - I have no idea about overclocking so I would appreciate it if someone could tell me if these are right or not.

BIOS main screen

 

[TheBigCheese]

BIOS advanced

BIOS advanced - north bridge

BIOS power

Looking at the hardware monitor in the bios the temperature is constantly climbing steadily , when it got to 46oC I switched it off. The CPU fan is working - up to 1700rpm.

What should I do??? I don't want any overclocking - just a stable PC!

 

[TheBigCheese]

Hi, thanks for the instant reply, really helpful as I'm pretty much doing this ->

I think I found what you mean it's called "Intel Speedstep" - here's an image - I've disabled it now.

The overclocking error message has gone now but it's still running stupidly hot...in fact it's just locked up in the BIOS which must mean it's really hot....how hot can the C2D 6600 get up to safely?

I don't get it as I've applied Arctic Silver 5 in a vertical line down the chip as the instructions say to do....

*head in hands* I hate computers sometimes.

 

[TheBigCheese]

Oh.....damn...cheers for the info!

I've enabled that setting again...it's not giving me the error message again (though I thought it would have enabling that setting again)...but the temperature is sitting around the 48oC mark...that can't be right can it...?

 

[TheBigCheese]

Thanks for the posts guys

It does seen that the overclock message was just a setting that sorted itself out on a reboot so that crisis is over.

I'm still not happy with the temps though...I'm resetting the heatsink now to see what happens - it is the stock cooler btw.

*update*

The stock cooler seems to be only spinning at about 800rpm now...then it's dropping into 790 range and the bios reading goes red...perhaps something is wrong with it...think I should probably get myself another one!

Any suggestions?

 

[TheBigCheese]

Hi thanks for your post, don't worry about asking basic questions.

The other fans weren't registering as I had only plugged the basics in to test it booted (had faulty RAM before and it wouldn't boot)

I did apply the AC5 correctly, and cleaned the HSF and CPU with proper cleaner before applying it.

Everything is properly connected and nothing is in contact with anything it shouldn't be.

I noticed that with QFan control on it was dropping to 800rpm with the temps at 43oC and rising, if I took QFan off the rpm went up to 1600 but it still isn't cooling it properly....either it isn't being powered properly or it's faulty...I think.

 

[TheBigCheese]

Well I sort of followed the 'don't worry about temps' advice and booted to windows and installed speedfan.

Strange thing is it was reporting cpu temps of only 32oC

It stayed steady there for a bit, then I restarted and looked at the hardware monitor in the bios...it showed 38oC and started climbing from there...

Booted back to windows and speedfan shows it steady between 32-34...weird eh?

It seems to be all OK though...perhaps the bios was misreporting, or could speedfan be misreporting?

 

[TheBigCheese]

Thanks for the information, I've downloaded both Core Temp and Asus PC Probe II.

Results:

Speedfan:
System = 28
CPU = 35
CPU Fan = 1696

Asus Probe:
System = 28
CPU = 34
CPU Fan = 1687

Core Temp:
Core 0 = 31
Core 1 = 34

They all look very similiar so I guess things are working OK at the moment!

The computer isn't doing a lot though...just checking a new 600Gb partition for any errors etc before I start using.

I'll fire up Fear Extraction Point later with the alarm warning running in the background and see what happens!