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Problems with X2 4400 - any help?

booyaka

booyaka

booyaka

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right removed my single core 3700+ and installed dual core 4400 cpu, small amount of AS5, freezer pro back on etc, started windows - multicore CPU thinggy found and running fine in windows. a few restarts etc and dual core optimizer install.

All bios settings are at stock levels, all gfx card @ stock etc etc.

Playing BF2, after about 15 mins crash to desktop, fired up bf2 again - same thing after about 10 mins.

Then fired it up again after a couple of restarts and this time in middle of a bf2 game - computer completely shuts down and restarts itself - tried again and after about 5 mins same thing - complete shutdown and restart.

Opened case - check everything, reseated cpu, heatsink etc and then fired up power and now just hangs at the bios/sata disk checking screen (very first screen @ startup).

DFI board beeping and showing 3 red lights which indicates not detecting cpu according to the manual.

Checked fitted properly etc and it is - tried over and over again but nothing, very occasionaly gets pass bootup screen but then gets to windows and crashs out to a restart.

Double and triple check bios everything at stock levels.

Have put old 3700 chip back in and loads into windows fine first time - didn't manage to check if bf2 was ok but played FM2006 for about 45 mins after old cpu back in and everything was fine.

any ideas - cpu sound like the problem to me :confused:
 
Sounds very much like an incompatible bios,check DFI street for the most suitable dual core bios for your particular board.
 
did u install the amd drivers & ms hotfix for u dual core cpu ?
could b that, read around forum, loads have had this prob when going daul core.

also would clear cmos, all mods on dfi 100% recomend this after changing any hardware on these boards. would read over @ dfi as well, probs find a solution real quick.
 
had a quick scan over DFI street and seems to be a few things i haven't tried yet. will get round to having a look at these after holidays - will stick to the 3700 for now.
cheers
 
booyaka said:
All bios settings are at stock levels, all gfx card @ stock etc etc.
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Hi,

If the BIOS isn't dual-core aware it may not be setting the right voltages so have a go at manually setting it up. One thing I have had problems with myself when using *auto* bios settings (similar issues to yourself) is that my memory wasn't getting enough voltage, so just by setting that manually to 2.8v (what mine needs) everything was sweet!
 
bios is the latest i can find without moving to a beta version (not really doing that!)

However - after putting the 3700 back in - resetting all the defaults etc - it crashed out of bf2 again after 15 mins.

So i decided to remove any software,drivers, stuff that i could remember installing since the crashing out started.

Also (sounds stupid) but i put the 3700 back to the original settings for my overclock 250 x11 etc (2.75ghz) ram on 166 divider and 2hours of bf2 and it seems fine! bizzarre!!

For luck i bumped the voltage on the ram to 2.8 and that might have been the issue - will run more tests on return from holiday - thanks
 
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