P5E OPT1 & 3 Temp Overheat

herpsuk · 14 Jan 2011 at 17:07

So my brother got a second hand Q6600 & P5E MoBo. We set it up, unclocked it immediately due to standard heatsink being used. Computer has worked fine while isntalling XP, worked fine when installing the drivers etc etc. Come home tonight with a 4 Pin Molex to 6 Pin adapter for the GFX, installed it and now i am receiving OPT1 Temp Overheat Error on boot.

Now when i go into bios it shows OPT1 & OPT3 as Overheating.

anyone got any ideas why this is?

cplhardnut · 14 Jan 2011 at 17:29

The person you bought it from, did he flash the bios to a rampage formula bios. If so the sensors showing it to be overheating are infact wrong. I had the same issue when I reflashed to rampage to get a better overclock. All you have to do is set it to ignored.

cplhardnut · 14 Jan 2011 at 17:32

I would suggest reflecting the bios to the latest p5e bios, you can still get a pretty decent overclock with them.

cplhardnut · 14 Jan 2011 at 17:32

cplhardnut said:
I would suggest reflashing the bios to the latest p5e bios, you can still get a pretty decent overclock with them.

herpsuk · 14 Jan 2011 at 18:21

Thanks a lot for the reply(s).

Heres some boot screenshots. Looks like it is running the Rampage Bios. Can i not just disable the warnings and carry on as it is? as we will be putting it back to overclocked when we get a heatsink.

Regards

Jon

cplhardnut · 14 Jan 2011 at 18:54

Yes just set it to ignore or n/a

cplhardnut · 14 Jan 2011 at 19:13

Main reason for having that bios is to get rid of vdroop, and a lot of P5E's suffer from high vdroop when overclocking.

herpsuk · 14 Jan 2011 at 20:03

Thanks alotfor the help, will go about disabling the setting now. Hopefully all shall work *fingers crossed*

Thanks

Jon