Have I been ripped off?

[dward]

Would there be any reason why my q6700 2.6ghz will only work when set to 6 x 266 ( 1.6ghz ) in bios. It's badged as core 2 quad 2.6ghz. But if I set it to run @ 10 x 266 the computer wont boot and I have to clear CMOS. Both the fail safe & optmized defaults set it @ 10 x 266 but it wont run. Whenever I get it to run the multiplier in bios is set at 6 x 266. I have disabled EIST and C1E just in case but no success. Have I been duped?

 

[hunter315]

What motherboard do you have? Does it support the Q6700?

Also whats the voltage for the processor set to? If its too low it wont be stable enough to boot.

 

[dward]

Thanks for the quick reply!
Motherboard is Gigabyte 965P-DQ6 rev 2.0
CPU is Core 2 extreme quad QX6700 2.66ghz ( which is listed as supported )
Voltage is currently 1.3375 which is the default.

While I can find heaps of "how to overclock" articles it I cant find a " here's how the default setup should be"

 

[hunter315]

Do you have bios version F8 or later? The QX6700 wasnt supported until then which might explain its downclocking, flashing the bios to the latest version may solve your problem.

 

[dward]

I'm on version F13. I feel like I'm missing something obvious or I've be sold a dud.

 

[13thmonkey]

have you tried auto on everything cpu related?

 

[vvhocare5]

2 thoughts:

If you can get it to boot, and windows is installed, run CPUz to identify your processor. That wil at least answer your first question.

Do what 13th is saying. Right now you are probably changing things like mad. Get back to defaults and slowly make changes.

My guess is the RAM timing/ratios is farked up. RAM voltage will have be increased for it to operate at all. And resetting my mb to defaults would NOT reset some of the RAM ratios also preventing it from posting. I dont know what RAM you have there.

Post your RAM type and RAM clock ratios/speed selections

 

[dward]

Thanks guys. CPUz reports it correctly. Yeah I went back to basics yesterday. The only thing I try and change is the mulitplier from 6x to 10x. To my surprise it booted at 10x yesterday but has reverted back again today.

Here are the ram details. I know very little about ram timings.

Ram - DDR2-SDRAM PC2-6400 (399 MHz) - [DDR2-800]
Timings -
DRAM frequency - 400Mhz
FSBRAM - 2:3

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