i7 CPU Voltage problems

[pwcmed]

A friend of mine gave me his computer "again" to work on. The first time I worked on this is when he first had it built by someone else. He was having issues with the motherboard having more than 3 gigs of ram. I made a post about here http://forums.legitreviews.com/about18875.html and here http://forums.legitreviews.com/about19267.html. Well this time he installed magic jack on his computer and it would not boot into windows after that. It would reboot half way into the loading screen. After attempts by two other people it’s my hands now. After a couple quick swap outs that did nothing I was browsing the BIOS and noticed it was a little sluggish. I alos noticed it keept on rebooting like when you have a overclock failure. I went into M.I.B tab of the BIOS and noticed that the CPU voltage was sitting at 1.576. I already cleared the BIOS so it was set to the default. I set it manually and all was well. I am going to tell my friend to RMA this thing because I am predicting future problems. Maybe I’m overlooking something. Has anyone seen this before.

[InspectahACE]

Not sure what could be doing that. I would try another board IMO. I never liked ECS and it wouldn't surprise me if it is the board. Even if they are decent now quality wise, I've seen 3 boards go bad in a rather short time(mine and twice with a friend's rig) and could never personally recommend them.

[DMB2000uk]

Ouch, that's going to be crippling for the CPU in the long run

Dan

[Gomeler]

Set everything to default and start over. You've got to test everything and make sure it'll run at stock before overclocking. That ECS board was quite temperamental when overclocked, I disposed of mine as quickly as possible. If you keep it at stock or a modest overclock though it'll run happily all day long.

[pwcmed]

I did set it at default and when I checked the voltages in the BIOS it read 1.576. My friend has no need to overclock. The most stressful thing he does on this is play WOW. I'm with inspecta on this, I'm never getting a ECS board. I'm glad I didn't build this system because I would've felt like an ass. Who knows how long this voltage has been sitting like this. I think Dan is right. This CPU life span has probably been shortened.

EDIT: My wife said I need to take an English class because I can't spell or use a period correctly. She corrected this sentence too. I guess thats what three years of college does to you. Turns you into a know-it-all.

[Gomeler]

I did set it at default and when I checked the voltages in the BIOS it read 1.576. My friend has no need to overclock. The most stressful thing he does on this is play WOW. I'm with inspecta on this, I'm never getting a ECS board. I'm glad I didn't build this system because I would've felt like an ass. Who knows how long this voltage has been sitting like this. I think Dan is right. This CPU life span has probably been shortened.

EDIT: My wife said I need to take an English class because I can't spell or use a period correctly. She corrected this sentence too. I guess thats what three years of college does to you. Turns you into a know-it-all.

You certain you aren't reading the vdimm? That sounds about correct for vdimm, vCPU should be 1.1v or so.

[pwcmed]

I'm pretty sure. I was going to record a video to prove his case to ECS, I will post it here when I do. I wouldn't believe this is either because I have never heard of this before.

[DL13]

It sounds like to me the bios is corrupted especially the voltage is stuck at 1.576 and it can't be changed. My first build was a ECS never again it was DOA.

EDIT: My wife said I need to take an English class because I can't spell or use a period correctly. She corrected this sentence too. I guess thats what three years of college does to you. Turns you into a know-it-all.

My wife dos the same to some times.