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New CPU, PC restarts on boot
- Thread starter pENdr4gON
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Hi Guys,
I too have been having problems with a Q6700 that I purchased from OC, originally had an E6600 in an ASUS PN5-E SLi board.
First time I fired it up after installing the new cpu it got halfway through loading Vista then it would repeatedly reboot, I then remembered that I'd not reset the CMOS...did that then it would boot up no problem.
Now I'm not that good when it comes to overclocking (can't get my head round it) so I used the AI overclocking in BIOS but the furthest I can get it is to a 10% overclock at around 2.93 GHz, anything higher than that and Vista will bluescreen with an 0x0000008e error oh and this also happens in Windows 7 RC
Any suggestions as to what I could try to get some more speed out of it and stay stable would be most appreciative.
I too have been having problems with a Q6700 that I purchased from OC, originally had an E6600 in an ASUS PN5-E SLi board.
First time I fired it up after installing the new cpu it got halfway through loading Vista then it would repeatedly reboot, I then remembered that I'd not reset the CMOS...did that then it would boot up no problem.
Now I'm not that good when it comes to overclocking (can't get my head round it) so I used the AI overclocking in BIOS but the furthest I can get it is to a 10% overclock at around 2.93 GHz, anything higher than that and Vista will bluescreen with an 0x0000008e error oh and this also happens in Windows 7 RC
Any suggestions as to what I could try to get some more speed out of it and stay stable would be most appreciative.
[Understatement Of the Year] I'm not the world's greatest overclocker [/Understatement Of the Year] but I had no trouble overclocking mine once I stopped the motherboard Overclocking the life out of the RAM. On Auto RAM setting on my motherboard it picked a really high multiplier that attempted to run the RAM at stupidly high clocks. Once I picked a manual multiplier in the bios that I knew left the RAM within spec. It was easy to get to 3.3GHz with the volts left on auto. I'm sure someone that knew what they were doing could get way past that.
So check with CPU-Z the actual memory speed when you overclock, perhaps your mobo is as brain dead as my gigabyte.
Good luck!!!
So check with CPU-Z the actual memory speed when you overclock, perhaps your mobo is as brain dead as my gigabyte.
Good luck!!!