Is my E6300 dead/dying??

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Ive had a e6300 for a while now, only been able to overclock it slightly from day one (fsb at 190) but i put that down to my motherboard and memory.

2 days ago Ive just brought a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard, geil Pc6400 ultra 2gb memory, new sata harddrive.
I installed vista fine first time and ran the processor at stock.
Tried overclocking it by upping the fsb very slightly but the motherboard kept on reseting itself on startup and defaulting back to stock.

Tonight vista crashed on startup.
Machine booted but vista wouldnt load, tried safe mode and that failed too.

So.
I tried a fresh install.
It kept on crashing after 'loading windows files', I either got a lockup or blank screen, and on the 3rd occassion blue screen of death.

I then underclocked the processor by selecting x6 multiplyer instead of x7.
Vista is currently installing fine.

Do you think the processor is dead/dying? and its not another component ie, motherboard etc?.
 
Im abit confused about where you say you can ovnly overclock the fsb to 190.

The default fsb for an e6300 is 266 :confused:
 
MeatLoaf said:
Im abit confused about where you say you can ovnly overclock the fsb to 190.

The default fsb for an e6300 is 266 :confused:
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Whoops i meant 290 and that was pushing it, it crashed still. it ran at 280 ok

Vista has installed now, and looking at the clock speed its saying 1.8 which means setting the multiplyer to 6 didnt underclock it.
Very strange it was really hit and miss when trying to install vista at stock speed. It was locking up all the time.
The only original components are the CPU and the powersupply (which was new 8 months ago) which is a enermax 500w.
 
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Now ive got vista installed, i dont want to install anything incase it corrupts again.
Would it be worth running a cpu stress test program?.
 
Its a Enermax liberty 500w

Now im thinking it may have something to do with it.
I brought the power supply the same time as the CPU!. so when the vista crashed when i first purchased the CPU, it was running on the powersupply.

Im currently stress testing the CPU and memory and its looking ok so far.

Before i ran the stress test i re-booted my machine and it hung 4 times (wouldnt post), i turned off the power supply and switched it back on and it then booted first time.

Do you think the power supply could be causing these problems?
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Its a Enermax liberty 500w

Now im thinking it may have something to do with it.
I brought the power supply the same time as the CPU!. so when the vista crashed when i first purchased the CPU, it was running on the powersupply.

Im currently stress testing the CPU and memory and its looking ok so far.

Before i ran the stress test i re-booted my machine and it hung 4 times (wouldnt post), i turned off the power supply and switched it back on and it then booted first time.

Do you think the power supply could be causing these problems?
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Much higher chance its something like the psu rather than the cpu from my experience.
 
Ill run Orthos for a good few hours and see if i get any errors. If not, its either the motherboard or the psu.

But as i had problems with my last motherboard im suspecting its the PSU.
Is there any software for vista that can display the voltages output from the PSU?
 
No just running orthos at the moment.

I'll try memtest tomorrow and see what happens.

The thing is i was using old memory when i was having problems on my old system.
This new system is using the new geil PC6400.

Im sure its probally something to do with the PSU as the system runs fine if i shut down vista and then re-boot the machine within a min or two.
If i leave the system off for say 5-10 mins and then re-boot I get problems, unless i turn off the power supply.

Will have to do some more testing.
If orthos comes out ok, then the CPU is fine.
Memtest is then next.
if both of them pass its either motherboard or psu.
 
My memory is telling me that the first revisions of Gigabyte's P965 boards suffered from similar booting problems (the DS3 in particular), so maybe that particular symptom is down to your mobo.

Of course that doesn't explain the blue screens and lockups while loading Vista however.

You might want to give s&m a go, downloadable here: http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/be_cpu.html

It's array of cpu/mem/power supply stressers always struck me as a good way of confirming how stable your system is running (xbitlabs use the power supply one in particular since it manages to get your system drawing more power than in almost any other situation).
 
ScoobyDoo said:
Ive had a e6300 for a while now, only been able to overclock it slightly from day one (fsb at 190) but i put that down to my motherboard and memory.

2 days ago Ive just brought a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R motherboard, geil Pc6400 ultra 2gb memory, new sata harddrive.
I installed vista fine first time and ran the processor at stock.
Tried overclocking it by upping the fsb very slightly but the motherboard kept on reseting itself on startup and defaulting back to stock.

Tonight vista crashed on startup.
Machine booted but vista wouldnt load, tried safe mode and that failed too.

So.
I tried a fresh install.
It kept on crashing after 'loading windows files', I either got a lockup or blank screen, and on the 3rd occassion blue screen of death.

I then underclocked the processor by selecting x6 multiplyer instead of x7.
Vista is currently installing fine.

Do you think the processor is dead/dying? and its not another component ie, motherboard etc?.
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where did ya get tht e6300 from ocuk ?
 
Yeah got the E6300 from overclockers.

Orthos has been running over 1.5hrs with no warnings/errors.
Will give it more time tomorrow, but processor is looking fine from this.
 
Just an update...

Computer crashed, switched off and then it wouldnt boot at all. fans spun, but no bios screen.

Tried my E6300 in a mates PC and it was fine.
After speaking to tech support, i RMA'd my motherboard and yup it was faulty so got a replacement today.
Going for the rebuild tomorrow :)

Seems quite a few DS3 boards including the DS3R P35 have been faulty.
Hope the replacement works ok!.
 
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