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waltherone
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Heh, got this e4300 deal from fry's right?
Ok so I put it in my P5B deluxe board that I had, and the thing will never post anything over 360fsb basically. I figure meh, no wonder this board was an open box item at newegg.
So I order a DS3, I put it in today (with an HR05 on the northbridge, with an 80mm fan attached to it) and get to moving, but it's doing the same thing. Except slightly worse. The DS3 won't post at the 355mhz fsb I had the chip running on on the p5b deluxe. Won't post at 400, 401, etc. about 333mhz is the best I've gotten so far.
But what it does is weird, rather than just giving me a screen with no video (what I think of as the TRADITIONAL no post screen) the thing will just restart itself over and over. I put it at 355mhz, save and exit bios, and the thing will restart, never get a bios beep, then shut down the system. All is silent for about 3 seconds then it hums back to life, no bios beep, then shuts off. 3 seconds later, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Only way to get back to the bios is to reset cmos.
Now, in all my overclocking history, any time I was trying to boot with way too high a fsb for a chip's limits, the machine would still POST, it would just crash while loading, or in windows, running prime, whatever. But whenever they won't POST I've always chalked that up to the board not being able to handle the speeds.
So what gives?? What's with the repeated restarts with no post on any of them?
And, 3ghz seems about the best this damn e4300 wants to do for me, you guys think its the chip that's the problem?
I don't have any other chips to try with it really. The P5B ran fine with the pentium D that was in it before (middle machine in sig). 24/7 100% load (folding at home) on both cores and never a hickup. Granted, that was considerably lower FSB speeds, which is why I figured I had a board that couldn't handle the high speeds due to defect. But two boards in a row? Beginning to think it's the chip...
Ok so I put it in my P5B deluxe board that I had, and the thing will never post anything over 360fsb basically. I figure meh, no wonder this board was an open box item at newegg.
So I order a DS3, I put it in today (with an HR05 on the northbridge, with an 80mm fan attached to it) and get to moving, but it's doing the same thing. Except slightly worse. The DS3 won't post at the 355mhz fsb I had the chip running on on the p5b deluxe. Won't post at 400, 401, etc. about 333mhz is the best I've gotten so far.
But what it does is weird, rather than just giving me a screen with no video (what I think of as the TRADITIONAL no post screen) the thing will just restart itself over and over. I put it at 355mhz, save and exit bios, and the thing will restart, never get a bios beep, then shut down the system. All is silent for about 3 seconds then it hums back to life, no bios beep, then shuts off. 3 seconds later, repeat. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Only way to get back to the bios is to reset cmos.
Now, in all my overclocking history, any time I was trying to boot with way too high a fsb for a chip's limits, the machine would still POST, it would just crash while loading, or in windows, running prime, whatever. But whenever they won't POST I've always chalked that up to the board not being able to handle the speeds.
So what gives?? What's with the repeated restarts with no post on any of them?
And, 3ghz seems about the best this damn e4300 wants to do for me, you guys think its the chip that's the problem?
I don't have any other chips to try with it really. The P5B ran fine with the pentium D that was in it before (middle machine in sig). 24/7 100% load (folding at home) on both cores and never a hickup. Granted, that was considerably lower FSB speeds, which is why I figured I had a board that couldn't handle the high speeds due to defect. But two boards in a row? Beginning to think it's the chip...
