AMD 955 BE

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Rawr12345

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K so i just received this proc today. everything looked fine popped it in my computer started up fine... just gotta get it to actually OC and get up to it's stated 3.2 which i cannot b/c of the cool n quiet thing. I turned off C&N and OCed it in bios started up and still only read it at 800mhz... restarted went back in bios and bios read it as 800 mhz aswell... I've been trying to get AMD overdrive to atleast get it to 3.2 but so far my computer keeps crashing... I tried updating my bios from asrock (I have an asrock 790GX/128m mobo) and the bios update doesn't work for some stupid reason. Any help would be very nice :)
 
You're going to have to update your bios to version 1.20 to get your cpu to work properly. Please for the love of your board, flash in windows only as a last resort. If you can use floppy or a bootable usb and afudos to flash since it uses a ami bios.
 
Strange I flashed mine using the Windows update program from Asus and had no problems.O'Well.
 
Windows flash works most of the time. Its just that out of all available methods, that is the riskiest one.
 
Yeah a bad flash in windows and you might not be able to flash back to original bios. I don't want to send out a mb just because bios flash failed.
 
Thanks for the help guys i got it to work finally. It should of worked on original bios but oh well all is good... Thanks for the info guys.

Thats why i love this forum.
 
Cool n Quiet doesn't prevent overclocking. It lowers the cpu frequency to the 1 GHz mark when the CPU is idle but it will kick into full speed when needed.
 
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