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)

 

[Big Bernard]

It's already got the latest BIOS

 

[Big Bernard]

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

 

[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

 

[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

 

[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??

 

[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.