Tom's Hardware: Topic Does anyone know what is broken here?
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Yea, I have seen symptoms like this before. I have a Gigabyte 965P DS3. When I try to O/C to an unstable clock my pc would shut down and reset the Cmos. It would do exactly what you described, "The fans start to spin for about 2 seconds, then they stop. A couple of seconds later they start to spin for another two seconds, and stop again." But that process wouldn't go on indefinitely like you described, it would reset my Cmos to fail safe defaults, and then boot. Heres something that can help. Take out your CPU, reset your Cmos, then try to boot with the CPU out! Let it sit for a few seconds and do whatever, it might beep or the fans might cycle on and off. Turn it off. Then put your CPU back in and try to boot. I've done that process with my current mobo and it fixed a very serious Cmos corruption. The Cmos seems to reset without a CPU in. help that works. 
Unfortunately, that didn't fix it. When I booted with the Q6600 removed, it broke the cycle and the fans spun continuously. When I replaced the processor, the cycle began again. I let the computer run for an hour with the fans cycling on and off at about 2 second intervals.
What would be your best guess. Is the Q6600 damaged? or the MoBo? I don't have spare processors and Mobos lying around to swap and help determine which is responsible. Any ideas?
Glenn
| Comzee wrote : Yea, I have seen symptoms like this before. I have a Gigabyte 965P DS3. When I try to O/C to an unstable clock my pc would shut down and reset the Cmos. It would do exactly what you described, "The fans start to spin for about 2 seconds, then they stop. A couple of seconds later they start to spin for another two seconds, and stop again." But that process wouldn't go on indefinitely like you described, it would reset my Cmos to fail safe defaults, and then boot. Heres something that can help. Take out your CPU, reset your Cmos, then try to boot with the CPU out! Let it sit for a few seconds and do whatever, it might beep or the fans might cycle on and off. Turn it off. Then put your CPU back in and try to boot. I've done that process with my current mobo and it fixed a very serious Cmos corruption. The Cmos seems to reset without a CPU in. help that works. |
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