AMD Phenom II Core Unlock Problem.. help!!

I have an AMD Phenom II 550BE Dual-core and managed to unlock it to 4 cores, Firmware set to Hybrid, ACC set to all cores -2%

It runs windows 7 for a few minutes before i get the same bsod error ''clock interrupt not recieved by secondary processor''

Does this mean something is out of sync? I had to lower my HT Link Speed to 1.6GHz because it wouldn't get past the windows loading screen at 2GHz

CPU VID is at 1.425V

CPU NB is at 1.175V

CPU Clock is underclocked to 2600Mhz

There is a reason why your having issues, its because one or both of the cores are broken/unstable which is why its a dual core cpu to begin with.

There is a reason why your having issues, its because one or both of the cores are broken/unstable which is why its a dual core cpu to begin with.

04dcarraher

correct not all phenom IIx2's can be unlocked to a full 4 cores. due to damaged/faulty cores. some can only become a tri core some wont even make it past 2.

the only guaranteed 4 core unlocked come from phenom IIx3 cpu's as generally speaking those have one core turned off and arent faulty/damaged cores.

soo NOW YOU KNOW!

try turning off one of the cores and see what happens.. a tri core is certainly a partial victory.

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]

There is a reason why your having issues, its because one or both of the cores are broken/unstable which is why its a dual core cpu to begin with.

ionusX

correct not all phenom IIx2's can be unlocked to a full 4 cores. due to damaged/faulty cores. some can only become a tri core some wont even make it past 2.

the only guaranteed 4 core unlocked come from phenom IIx3 cpu's as generally speaking those have one core turned off and arent faulty/damaged cores.

soo NOW YOU KNOW!

try turning off one of the cores and see what happens.. a tri core is certainly a partial victory.

I had a different experience working with a Phenom II X3 720 BE in 2 different motherboards. I couldn't get that 4th core stable, no matter what I did. I think some of those have faulty 4th cores as well.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]

There is a reason why your having issues, its because one or both of the cores are broken/unstable which is why its a dual core cpu to begin with.

hartsickdiscipl

correct not all phenom IIx2's can be unlocked to a full 4 cores. due to damaged/faulty cores. some can only become a tri core some wont even make it past 2.

the only guaranteed 4 core unlocked come from phenom IIx3 cpu's as generally speaking those have one core turned off and arent faulty/damaged cores.

soo NOW YOU KNOW!

try turning off one of the cores and see what happens.. a tri core is certainly a partial victory.

I had a different experience working with a Phenom II X3 720 BE in 2 different motherboards. I couldn't get that 4th core stable, no matter what I did. I think some of those have faulty 4th cores as well.

notice the bolded word. some of them are in fact damaged core but they are few and far between normally they just take the top returns from the die that couldnt measure up to a proper phenom II x4, test to ensure the third core is working clock it up and ship em off in a box to market.

yes some of them dont work but their are FAR more working 4 cores than bad 4th cores.

generally a cpu never loses a single core when your talking about 4,5,6+ cores on a cpu they lose 2 at a time. but given that anything is possible such results to exist. why does it happen.. idk sorry i dont work for amd or intel.. i couldnt honestly say. ill cough it up to the magic of disney.

[QUOTE="ionusX"]

[QUOTE="04dcarraher"]

There is a reason why your having issues, its because one or both of the cores are broken/unstable which is why its a dual core cpu to begin with.

hartsickdiscipl

correct not all phenom IIx2's can be unlocked to a full 4 cores. due to damaged/faulty cores. some can only become a tri core some wont even make it past 2.

the only guaranteed 4 core unlocked come from phenom IIx3 cpu's as generally speaking those have one core turned off and arent faulty/damaged cores.

soo NOW YOU KNOW!

try turning off one of the cores and see what happens.. a tri core is certainly a partial victory.

I had a different experience working with a Phenom II X3 720 BE in 2 different motherboards. I couldn't get that 4th core stable, no matter what I did. I think some of those have faulty 4th cores as well.

*Buying a dualcore (broken quad) and try revert it to old glory, can't make it stable?!.*

So, where would you wan't us to provide help?, buying you a quad? :D

The 550 is a great dual, if you were intrerested in a quad you would have brougth yourself a real quadcore who compleated the extencive testing AMD did when making it.

Make no mistake, all dualcore taken from the quadcore line have faults on atleast one of the core's this IS why one or two cores were disabled to begin with, if you can live with the faults that AMD did not wan't to sell it with it's your buissines but do never exspect to unlock a crippled CPU to the full glory of the chip it was intended to be, some can be run but with minor faults, your seems like it had a larger fault.

Just feel happy that you got what you payed for, instead of wanting to win the lottery. :)

Make no mistake, all dualcore taken from the quadcore line have faults on atleast one of the core's this IS why one or two cores were disabled to begin with, if you can live with the faults that AMD did not wan't to sell it with it's your buissines but do never exspect to unlock a crippled CPU to the full glory of the chip it was intended to be, some can be run but with minor faults, your seems like it had a larger fault.

Just feel happy that you got what you payed for, instead of wanting to win the lottery. :)

swehunt

Not true at all the early Phenom 2 BE were all fully functional cores. I know I have one. There were not enough faulty cores to produce the mass supply they need at the time for their new dual cores. Its a fact that AMD disabled the cores to meet the demand of the market at start, but now its highly unlikely that all four are stable. I have unlocked the cores from day 1 and all four have no faults at all.

What motherboard are you using? I know with Asus motherboards they auto check the cores to see if they work properly and then re-disable it if it doesent work.

My motherboard is in my sig lol. I wasn't expecting it to unlock I bought it as a dual-core it would of been nice if it worked though, a lot of people had luck with a 550BE unlocking to 4 cores and running at 3.5ghz. Im happy with my overclock of 3.9 though, tight ram clocks aswell :)