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Intel Core 2 Quad 2.66Ghz CPU Prob, Please Help!!!

pete05uk

pete05uk

pete05uk

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Hi All,

I am using an Abit AW9D Max Motherboard with an intel core 2 Quad 2.66ghz CPU.

The base unit was dropped and afterwards, the PC would not boot, not even the POST stage, I stripped it down and reassembled it, and I was getting POST error code 9.0 on the Mboard.

I left the PC off for 24hrs when I came back to it I reset the Bios using the switch on the motherboard, all is ok now and it is running smoothly, apart from one thing, during the POST diags, it reports the CPU as Intel Core 2 Quad but in brackets it has (2 CPU's) wheras previously it said 4, the same is the case in Windows. I have flashed my bios to teh latest version, with no effect. As I said before the PC is now running fine, but I cannot find an explanation as to why 2 cores have potentially "disappeared" Is it possible that 2 of the cores are damaged and the system as "mapped" around them? Any help would be appreciated.
 
When you go into task manager, are all 4 cores being used? Does it just say 2 cores, or does it say 4 with 2 cores at 0%?

Sounds to me like a connection between the two duals has been broken.
 
Did you drop the entire unit, or was it the CPU that you dropped? If the latter, it could be some bent pins. If not, I would say you have probably damaged a connection between the dual cores (the C2D quads are just two dual cores sandwiched together).
 
D D Danneh said:
Did you drop the entire unit, or was it the CPU that you dropped? If the latter, it could be some bent pins. If not, I would say you have probably damaged a connection between the dual cores (the C2D quads are just two dual cores sandwiched together).
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It was the base unit itself whilst I was moving house. Is it possible I have bent some pins whilst re-seating teh cpu? If so, is there anything I can do?
 
Pins are probably fine. Cpu is probably fine. Area of motherboard around cpu socket is probably damaged.

Do you have more pieces of computer around to test with? Ideal would be a different motherboard to put the cpu in, as the mb and cpu are the most likely components to be damaged.

How well does the computer deal with running prime blend? I'd get any important data off it immediately, and before running prime.
 
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