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Regor weirdness -- When things get weird, Weirdness get going.
Three BIOS beeps only 1st time: UnRecognized Processor.
So. That's what I'm now running, I guess. A Regor CPU on an unsupported MB. AKA: dualcore Phenom. Clock speed is correct - 3400. Dunno, don't ask me. The multipler @ 200FSB topped out at a BIOS limit of x11 on the Phenom x4 that was just in it. (Need a multiplier of x17 to do this, or some stellar FSB speeds.) Temps look stellar! Dropped from 133F on MB / 120F CPU to presently 111F/102F full load. Process Lasso is showing 0% usage on spec'd and graphed at 100% for on each core. It's whacked out, for sure. Initially, so far looking great...I so easily want to be impressed, but, is it too early yet to cross my fingers? It's sitting on a cardtable not hooked up to the SPDIF/laser to preamp/mixer, IOW working soundboard may be playing garbage until I plug it it. Maybe, maybe, maybe...or as in the first Alien, at the end when she's blasting off..."lucky, lucky, lucky...". Temps haven't deviated. Time to find out what's what where the road hits concrete. |
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Regor weirdness -- When things get weird, Weirdness get going.
On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:20:28 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: Nevermind. BIOS IS, does have x17 (in manual setting). It's a Living BIOS, evidently, able to sentiently adapt from different CPU multiplers, apart from AUTO, to a manual setting that's based on the needed (top) limit of the resident/presiding CPU. Wow. |
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weirdness all got up and done gone away
On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:25:07 -0400, Flasherly
wrote: Booted fine a couple times. Took it over to test - no boot/no signal. Took it back to cardtable. Replaced w/quadcore and booted fine. Put back in Regor and no boot. Pretty crappy fun once the air's all gone out of a can of whopee. |
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weirdness all got up and done gone away
Flasherly wrote:
On Fri, 29 May 2015 20:25:07 -0400, Flasherly wrote: Booted fine a couple times. Took it over to test - no boot/no signal. Took it back to cardtable. Replaced w/quadcore and booted fine. Put back in Regor and no boot. Pretty crappy fun once the air's all gone out of a can of whopee. I guess now, it's a large silicon hood ornament. It happens. Oh, one tiny note. Never count a chip out entirely. I had a chip at work, that went into "latchup". The chip was worth about $300, and it looked like it was dead. I turned off the power, turned on the power, and it was still dead. I went home, came into work the next day, turned on the power again... and it worked. I really don't understand why it wasn't destroyed permanently. So give it 8 hours with the power off, and it might come back. Stranger things have happened. I was also able to figure out the root cause on that one, and stopped it from happening in the future (the "latchup" thing). So no more of those chips took any "dirt naps". Paul |
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weirdness all got up and done gone away
On Fri, 29 May 2015 22:35:10 -0400, Paul wrote:
I guess now, it's a large silicon hood ornament. It happens. Oh, one tiny note. Never count a chip out entirely. I had a chip at work, that went into "latchup". The chip was worth about $300, and it looked like it was dead. I turned off the power, turned on the power, and it was still dead. I went home, came into work the next day, turned on the power again... and it worked. I really don't understand why it wasn't destroyed permanently. So give it 8 hours with the power off, and it might come back. Stranger things have happened. I was also able to figure out the root cause on that one, and stopped it from happening in the future (the "latchup" thing). So no more of those chips took any "dirt naps". Paul For a free CPU, though, I'd be surprised if I did permanent damage to it -- other than experiencing an "happening." Dirt naps. That's cute. If it did not boot up normally, if I had rather the proper MB ... properly listed and spec'd for that Regor, then, I might be surprised, wonder about AMD. Or myself, not considering implications of that magnitude for improperly mating what as much was idle curiosity in at least an attempt (and damn near pulled itself off). I've "fixed" a few CPUs from bent pins (including LGA "springboards"). Damaging a CPU, that's never happened before. The hood ornament reference didn't initially register, and the thought that it's actually dead hadn't really occurred to me. Until now. I suppose if that's the case, I could instead have killed my MB as easily. Which Would Not, at all, have been within an acceptable "happening" area. More along a major downer for quick readjustments. I like to plan ahead, and that's more about verge stupidity and abusiveness than planning. Also stuck in another backplane fan off a PS 4-way cable header. For indulgences and whatever else it's worth. MB chips might have consequently dropped a couple degrees. Seems offhand 4T in HDD platter storage may have derived more cooling benefit than the MB. The HDDs already have their own fan, the only fan apart the CPU in an otherwise open-sided case, but still seems I've caught them hovering up around 108F -- if, as presently is, closer to 100F will be worth the long term dirt-ball effect of an added fan's dust accumulation. Dirt I'm good with. Have a 60gal. air compressor and don't mind splurging on a bottle of alcohol, dousing all with a 3" parts brush, if it gets nasty enough and is worth bringing a MB/build back up into "fine" operational condition. (An existing PS, that's added work, for a well-worn unit possibly to exclude, rather than the effort to tear it similarly down, provided a $25 rebated unit is handy with a little quality attached to it. Besides nicely regulated and fresh service voltages, they'll often go serviceable to upgrades when a new MB/build turns feasible. ...Extant XP drivers and finagling one PCI slot for lesser quaint thoughts.) |
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