November 13, 201015 yr I have an older Q6600 on a Gigabyte X38T-DQ6 board, 4GB DD3-1600 RAM, running Win 7 / 64 bit with a GTX 460 (1 GB). I had previously mildly overclocked the CPU to 3GHz (333 X 9), and it ran stable. After noticing last night that it seemed to be running slower then before, I looked at BIOS and found that the manual FSB setting was back to "Auto", giving a CPU speed of 2.4 GHz. I tried re-enabling my OC but it always shut down and reset to Auto after trying to boot.I finally tried setting the FSB to manual, but the FSB to default speed (would still yield 2.4 GHz), and it shut down on reboot again, and then started with the Auto setting. Seems it is not happy with the FSB setting at "manual". Vcore is 1.35 Volts (1.296 in CPU-Z). I know that this system is old, my next purchase will be something more recent in CPU/Mobo/memory. But in the meantime, would anyone have an explanation for the issues I am seeing?Thanks for any suggestions,Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
November 14, 201015 yr Author Time to replace the battery on the mobo?Yes- maybe that's it, thanks. Are mobo batteries somewhat standardized, so that I could get one at an electronic store such as Best Buy. or is it better to buy from the manufacturer? I've never done this before, but looking at the mobo manual (Gigabyte X38T-DQ6) it seems fairly easy.Thanks, Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
November 14, 201015 yr The last few motherboards I've seen seem to have standardized on the CR-2032 battery. Common size and about $2-3 in computer stores, office supply stores, etc.
November 15, 201015 yr Author The last few motherboards I've seen seem to have standardized on the CR-2032 battery. Common size and about $2-3 in computer stores, office supply stores, etc.Thanks, much appreciated. Bruce. ASEL, Instrument. KBJC, Colorado.
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