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E6600 not stable...

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techdude01

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Needing some tips/advice on this newly installed E6600 CPU. I had a E6300 in my system (see sig) and everything ran nice, stable and smooth. I recieved my E6600 CPU yesterday and installed it in. One thing I forgot was to plug in the 4 pin CPU power cable when I attempted to start the computer. I immediately shut down the computer and plugged it in. The system boots up fine and I was on my desktop browsing the net, and running Prime95 to make sure there was nothing wrong with the CPU. After about 30 minutes my computer shuts down. The fans are still running and it takes about 30 seconds before I see the post screen.

I run orthos (w/o browsing the net) and about another 30 min or so it shuts off again. I re-checked my hardware, everything is seating in properly. I monitored my CPU temps on both times and the highest it goes is 42.C. My question is, if a CPU is damaged, shouldnt I NOT be able to get it to post at all? Or is there possibly something wrong with any other of my components? Any advice is appreciated.
 
I don't know if this helps, but I did just about the same thing. I had my E6300 in a Asus P5B DLX mobo until I switched it out for a E6600 cpu. What I forgot to do was go into the BIOS and make everything stock again I had the E6300 kind of OC'ed, I have since put the E6300 in a Asrock 775DUAL-VSTA mobo (soon to be in another P5B DLX), the E6600 in a Abit AW9D-MAX mobo and got a E6400 chip in the original P5B DLX mobo Please post whatever your solution is :)
 
I guess about 80+ members that saw this thread is also stomped on what to do. Well, I called the guy up and he is willing to test it out and send me a replacement if need to.
 
Increased the ram voltage to .5+ and the system is now stable if anyone else wanted to know. This is on a Gigabyte DS3 mobo. And all this time I thought it was the E6600.
 
I was reading your original post and I'm glad to hear you eventually tracked down your problem. Honestly, neglecting to plug in the CPU power plug shouldn't damage your processor. I guess your system was unstable, and just needed a bit more juice after all. You should set the option in windows so that it doesn't reset on BSOD, and you at least get to see an error readout and have a vague idea of what went wrong. Have fun with your system!
 
Jalidi said:
I was reading your original post and I'm glad to hear you eventually tracked down your problem. Honestly, neglecting to plug in the CPU power plug shouldn't damage your processor. I guess your system was unstable, and just needed a bit more juice after all. You should set the option in windows so that it doesn't reset on BSOD, and you at least get to see an error readout and have a vague idea of what went wrong. Have fun with your system!
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Thanks. What seems odd to me was my system was perfectly stable when I had my old E6300 in there. The ram was not changed when I installed the E6600. Im not sure if saying the E6600 took more juice and thats why my ram needed more juice is correct, but Im glad I did some researching and found out what the problem was. Back to the ole desktop, and not always stuck on the laptop feels so good. :D
 
I know running the DDR2 V @ 2.2 is one of the keys to stability on my build with OCZ Gold PC6400. It doesn't like anything under 2.0V and for OC 2.2 seems to work the best. I checked a lot of the OC posts before I made the changes.

I have to change the DDR2 voltages and save that setting before bumping up the clock.
 
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