Have I blown it! Q6600 overclocking

You are a muppet who should read the MB user manual. Start at the topic heading denoted 'reset CMOS jumper and/or default BIOS' instructions. Do not use A1 auto and expect to overclock your machine properly. For one thing that tends to overvolt and overheat the muppet crap out of your system hardware. Read the stickies around CPU forums.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] uals-guide

Thanks for your posts. Have tried restting BIOS via jumper and monitor DOES now wake up, cheers much. Gets to the initial screen where says press del to enter setup. but no further. Cant get into BIOS by pressing del... If I turn off and restart then im back to monitor doesnt wake and have to reset BIOS again.

As an asside reading MB manual suggested that dont need to clear BIOS after overclocking failure and that the aptly named "C.P.R.", (CPU Parameter Recall) will reset previous settings after a reboot. I did reboot initially and no joy as written in last post. So I am now at the stage where can reset the bios via jumper and get no further.

Any suggestions?

thanks again.

q6600 on a 6xxi chipset? Thats asking for FSB holes up the A$$. Good luck, you will have to play with that board for a while to get it going somewhat high. Alot of people cant get more than a 320 FSB out of it.

The worse part is that when its an FSB issue, the auto recover stock settings for a boot fails, and it forces you to re set the CMOS manually Via the mother board jumper.

My suggestion is try a higher FSB with lower multi if you want to not have a large processor OC. BUT, you will need to find a FSB over that 320 or whatever that works. For me it was 1485. Just remember to set your NB voltage to 1.4 for the higher fsb.

You'll want to not OC your ram until you get a speed at which you can boot into windows. That does make it harder, because you'll have to guess your VCore for whatever speed actually gets past the post screen, and into windows.

Oh, disable all the spread spectrum options in the Bios, disable all the cpu functions as well, like vanderpool, disable bit, speedstep... then set your VCore to auto and fsb to 266 and boot into windows, run core temp 0.96.1 and list your VID and stepping/revision of your quad!

--Lupi!

He still should be able to hit 3.0GHz on the 650i.

To OP: Just because it doesn't boot, it doesn't mean your system is damaged.

Cool, glad you have one of em! I dont, I just know how they seem to work for most people! My 680i was the same way. 320 was the highest FSB. Thats like 2.9ish.

yeah, no booting isnt bad. You just wanna find out whats stopping it. Keep yer mem at stock settings. The memory can cause no posts. The FSB holes can cause no posts. The FSB is usually a non recoverable frozen post. Have to manually re set.

--Lupi!

Thats a real possibility! I have often wondered at their heat. And always so near the socket! That heat does radiate, and makes me wonder if you may lose a degree or two on your processor as well. Even with good cooling, those things radiate their heat right around that area!

If you try it, please let me know how it turns out! I am greedy, and 475 fsb isnt enough!!! More Power!!

--Lupi!

Ok cool, have a go 2morrow and post wat happened and hopefully we'll b able to help u further m8

After much soul searching and swearing I have the computer running again. The problem (I believe) was drawing more power than the PSU could give. I installed 2 fans (it still ran Ok). Then did noddy overclocking which drew too much power. when reset the CMOS, got as far as the splash screen only but there wasnt the power for the keyboard (so no del key to enter BIOS). i beleive it stopped at the splash screen as that is when the memory was activated (4 sticks of 1Gb DDR2). Interpretation may be wrong. the solution was unplugging everything except 1 stick of Memory and keyboard. Reseting CMOS, then rebooting with everything attached. My PSU is 500W. Unless anyone has a different interpretation I am going to get a bigger PSU.

Thanks for the help. The adventure continues.

Hi, thanks for getting back!

Tried to get a replacement (and pay for upgrade) from company bought from but they were convinced it was a memory problem and are willing to replace 4*1 for 2*2. Also they said they have had a similar prob on ASUS boards in the past. Am doing that and if no joy will get a new PSU. Still think its the PSU but am waiting for the mem first...

Cheers