Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' Motherboard stuck w/ VCore at 1.863V
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Intel D975XBX 'Bad Axe' Motherboard stuck w/ VCore at 1.863V
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...
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...
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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
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
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Got an e-mail back from Intel's R&D lab in Oregon...
wheeew... Not my 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.
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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.....
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.
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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...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.....