Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' Motherboard stuck w/ VCore at 1.863V

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:17 am

The other day I had my Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' motherboard running with my Nautilus 500 and it was just at idle when I left the test bench for a couple hours to get lunch. I come back and the test system was shut down. I tried restarting it without much luck.

A number of people have asked to see how the OCZ PC2-8800 Gold and Corsair PC2-8888 DOMINATOR modules do with Conroe, so this was my attempt at finding out. I've was able to get the board to post once and this is what i saw....

The voltage was set to 1.325V in the BIOS on my Core 2 Duo E6700 processor, but for some reason the board was running 1.863V. Last night I packed the board up and overnight mailed it to one of the guys at Intel that designed the board, so he could debug it and find what is going on. Just thought I'd share it with you all. I sent it priority overnight, so it should arrive in a couple hours at their labs.

oh yes... 83C on my conroe...

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:27 am

Damn, nasty! At least it didn't fry your CPU straight away! However that picture doesn't match up to what you said bout cooling

I notice that you've favoured to ditch the X1950's unbelievably pretty cooler and use the accelero, how's that for temps?

Dan

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 8:36 am

well i thought something was wrong with the nautilus 500, but it did the same with the reference HSF as seen in the picture above...

As for the X1950... the card in the picture is actually the X1900XTX... the X1950XTX has a maze 4 block on it. ;)

My CPU still works fine as it's running in the Gigabyte DS3 right now. Thinking about it now I shoulda used my dry ice tube on this board... LOL

Post by **DMB2000uk** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:09 am

Ah, nice one then. I'm days away from insatlling my own watercooling setup, just waiting on PC parts to cool, so should have some fun myself.

The normal voltage doesnt go up that high right? Would have ensured maximum overclocks on dry ice

Dan

Post by **Apoptosis** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:23 am

yeah the most the board should be able to do is 1.6V

eva2000 · Post by **eva2000** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:30 pm

wow crazy stuff there.. coincidently i just plucked my E6700 on my Badaxe as well cooled by Corsair Hydrocool 200EX heh

83C in bios would be like 70C on the internal die sensor according to coretemp for badaxe :eek:

Post by **Apoptosis** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:53 am

Got an e-mail back from Intel's R&D lab in Oregon...

I received the board yesterday and it’s acting just like you described. The CPU voltage is shooting up to 1.8/1.9V. The board can’t even really boot before it thermtrips. We’re still looking at it, but I don’t think Nate did anything wrong. We will need to keep the board to analyze it.

wheeew... Not my fault!

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:14 am

okay now i'm pissed... it killed my E6700 that was in the motherboard... I'm out a motherboard and a CPU...

kenc51 · Post by **kenc51** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:07 am

Ouch......Same thing happened with my 4400+ & Opty 170 using the "Expert" board.
Didn't you say Intel acknowledged there was a problem with the board? I dunno how it works with ES chips but mayby they will allow you to return it since it was their fault.....

I received the board yesterday and it’s acting just like you described. The CPU voltage is shooting up to 1.8/1.9V. The board can’t even really boot before it thermtrips. We’re still looking at it, but I don’t think Nate did anything wrong. We will need to keep the board to analyze it.

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 8:22 am

kenc51 wrote:Ouch......Same thing happened with my 4400+ & Opty 170 using the "Expert" board.
Didn't you say Intel acknowledged there was a problem with the board? I dunno how it works with ES chips but mayby they will allow you to return it since it was their fault.....

Since Conroe is now old ES samples are all handed out and they are moving on to the next generation processors... think i might be out of luck, but we will see...

eva2000 · Post by **eva2000** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:31 am

Apoptosis wrote:okay now i'm pissed... it killed my E6700 that was in the motherboard... I'm out a motherboard and a CPU...

ouch sorry to hear mate... maybe give a few days and cpu with miracously come back to life

Post by **Apoptosis** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 7:30 am

funny because I just woke up at 8am and went to the test bench and tried it again... It just reboots where windows should load... use any other Allendale or Conroe and it works fine...

eva2000 · Post by **eva2000** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 11:55 pm

Apoptosis wrote:funny because I just woke up at 8am and went to the test bench and tried it again... It just reboots where windows should load... use any other Allendale or Conroe and it works fine...

maybe slowly coming back to life ?

Post by **Apoptosis** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:44 am

maybe... I'm taking it to IDF with me...

Pengwin · Post by **Pengwin** » Mon Sep 25, 2006 4:51 am

I've got an ES revision of the 6700

wow and my Pentium EE 955...is ES too

lemme plug it in, i'll post some pics.