puzzling vcore

[fsxnate]

this is very strange to me. Firstly I have a GA P35 DS3L running an 8400 Wolfdale, 4 GB of GSKILL 2x2 1066 Ram with an antech 500 W powersupply. Upon looking at Bios, I brought the CPU from 3ghz to 3.8ghz, the cpu seemed to run stock around 1.25v so I raised it to 1.33 respectivly and things seemed to be going fine, 32c idle and 42 under load thanks to the awesome rosewill 92mm set up. After about 3 days of gaming and regular use, there was hardware settings blue screen after post. The bios was reset to default settings and I seemed puzzled because it worked just fine on stock cpu clocks. I raised the CPU back to 3.8 and upped the juice to 1.33v and got a blue screen after post. I restarted and went back into the bios and the voltage had gone back to stock settings, everything else stayed, so I went and raised it again then upon restart I checked and it reset itself, I can no longer raise the cpu voltage, I was wondering if the voltage reset was the cause for the error. I have since clocked it to 3.6 which runs decently on the orig core voltage but I cannot change the cpu voltage any more, this is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me. Any suggestions?

Nate

 

[blackwidow_rsa]

Try resetting the bios by using the jumpers on the mobo (see manual) or by removing the battery for about a minute. Pull out powercable while doing this

 

[V3NOM]

i got a bit of a weird problem too with vcore... my E4400 (now at 2.5GHz ) has a vid of 1.3250 according to core temp. cpu z on the other hand states the current vcore at 1.264 at 100% load small fft orthos stress testing! wtf?? how is the vcore lower than the vid?? unfortunately my mobo is a VIA chipset and i am unable to manually control the cpu voltage (or even the multiplier for that matter -_-) i'm yeah fairly confused atm..

 

[V3NOM]

oh yeah and adding to blackwidows reply, also unplug any USB devices as they can actually provide power to the motherboard! bit of a horror story with that one somewhere..

 

[zenmaster]

VID is just the default Intel Sets.
You can frequently set it to run under that.

 

[the last resort]

i have the same problem. my ASUS M2n SLI deluxe wont let me change the voltage. i adjust the voltage in the CPU section in the BIOS and the voltage won't change at all. I also have weird voltage readings. In speedfan, the two VCores are 1.23 V and 3.17 V. The VID according to Core Temp is 1.350. Then in CPU-Z, the core voltage is reported as 1.216. All this on a stock 6000+.

 

[fsxnate]

thanks for the replies, I'm going to try that.

 

[V3NOM]

but seriously, thats a massive drop for me and its overclocked to 2.6GHz! 600MHz above stock with a voltage MUCH lower than VID????