Help needed with Q6600

[Big Bernard]

System:

AWD9-MAX motherboard (latest BIOS)
XION 600W PSU
8800GTX
4 x 1Gb Corsair ValueRam
2 x 500Gb SATA HD
2 x DVD RW +/- whatever drives.
Dual boot Vista HP / XP


I had an E6700 in this and the whole thing ran perfectly for nearly a year. Never crashed at all. It has never been overclocked. Now, I wanted to put a Q6600 in it and use the E6700 for my brother's computer.

I fitted it ok, the heatsink is definitely on fine, nothing is disconnected or loose yet it reboots / blue screens after about 2 minutes in Vista and won't even start XP (it reboots after the progress bar).

Temperatures seem to stay around the 45 degree mark.

Can someone please check these BIOS pics to see if anything is amiss. I've never touched the voltage settings and am now wondering if perhaps they are bit low.

The 2nd picture shows the available options for the CPU Voltage (but I haven't touched these yet)

 

[Justintime]

XION 600W PSU

Never heard of it tbh.

 

[Naj]

After installing my Q6600, with stock cooler, then reinstalling Vista, i kept getting BSOD. Not sure the thermal compund on the stock cooler was any good. Installed TT Big Typhoon, reinstalled Vista, all is good now.

 

[mk17]

update your AW9D-MAX bios to latest, I know these boards had some quad issues a while ago. I'm not saying its a cure, but it won't hurt. Prolly best to do this with your dual-core in place, and flash the bios from floppy, not flashmenu, having reset any o/c you may have applied. hth.

 

[Big Bernard]

It's already got the latest BIOS

 

[Servo]

give it 1.35 vcore, and your memory +.2v. and try again.

 

[Big Bernard]

Just tried it. Lasted about 1 minute in Vista before rebooting

 

[Tetras]

I run Q6600 and AW9D-MAX (BIOS 15) on Vista no problem (stock vcore and vdimm), I'd look elsewhere. Did you upgrade/add memory at the same time?

What is the +12v reading?

 

[Big Bernard]

Only thing that changed was the CPU. Nothing else was touched.

Is this the +12v thing?

The "24 pin connector" one flicks between 12.25 and 12.31

 

[Thebug]

try v-core on 1.4v mine needs 1.375v with a corsair hx620 - so it could be down to the cheap psu on load

 

[ergonomics]

XION 600W PSU

Never heard of it tbh.

i felt this needed quoting. try it with your brothers psu? (if its any better, ie a branded psu)

 

[funksteruk2]

have you done a reinstall?

sometimes this will help

 

[Big Bernard]

I've put the E6700 back in and it's working perfectly (I'm on it now)

I tried different voltages as suggested with the Q6600 and no joy

When Vista DID run - albeit for literally 2 minutes - I noticed that trying to refresh the Windows Experience Index would guarantee a blue screen.


Can the difference between the E6700 and Q6600 REALLY be so much as to question the PSU? Could the Q6600 be faulty? Or could it be a motherboard problem?

I really don't know so I'm going to leave the E6700 in it for now and rethink my strategy.

Thanks to everyone for trying to help anyway. Tis appreciated

 

[casw1000]

Not wanting to stir the pot here but just add my own experiences. I have a Q6600 as well. It is happily running hard under Linux participating in the F@H project.

It is running on a 250w power supply. The Q6600 is installed in a Asus Barebone system V3-P5G965 which has a rated PSU of 250w. Now it might be a good quality one, I don't know but it's as stable as anything.

Currently it's not overclocked to high at 2.7Ghz, this is partly due to the limited bios. Anyway back on topic. I do agree with what some are saying about the power supply, but would not like to suggest that a branded psu will fix your problems.

I will say something really obvious here in an effort to cover all bases. When you removed the E6700 and installed the Q6600, did you load the bios defaults with the new cpu installed. The reason for stating this is that I forgot to do this on another system and stability was a problem and once I tried load defaults as a last option all was well.

Just my 2pence worth. Good luck.

 

[Big Bernard]

*Update*

I am on the Q6600 now. I'm running it at half speed (1200Mhz !) and it seems to work. I can even boot into XP again.


What can this signify then? It's overheating at stock? I need a new Heatsink? New PSU?



Any thoughts??

 

[Biffa]

I was going to ask what the temperatures were in the bios? The only time I had a problem like yours with a Q6600 was when it was overheating and it would turn itself off.

 

[Big Bernard]

I was going to ask what the temperatures were in the bios?

I just restarted now to check and it says 38 degrees.


Yesterday - at full speed - was about 43 - 45 I think.

 

[Well Splattered]

Where it is DRAM Spec (CPU:RAM)

Relax it to run at DDR800 with 4 sticks.

Voltages look fine, I wouldnt question the powersupply unless voltages droop like mad under load, but you will not see that in BIOS.

My bets on Ram timings. Also reckon that it would be rock stable with only two sticks installed.