I have just bought a IP35 Pro Off Limits board from Overclockers as part of their overclocked bundle.
So I have
- Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - OEM
- Abit IP35 Pro (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
- OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) (Deal Product)
- Tuniq Tower 120-LFB CPU Cooler (Socket 478/754/939/940/AM2/LGA775)
I have also a the following that have been working in my old system for awhile with no problems
- EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB
- Hiper 580W PSU
- Creative X-Fi sound card
- Pinnacle video capture card
- Supra modem
- 2 x DVD rewriters
- 1 x CD rewriter
- 1 x Floppy drive
Bios settings left as default apart from boot device, day date etc. No overclock settings.
What happend with when I fitted the 1st motherboard was the system just beeped at me with the C.C. error code. The CMOS switch was set out of the box, so reset it and the system booted. I installed a base o/s and powercycled numerous times during this process and all was well. Switched it all off and left it overnight.
Next morning the system would not power up, just spun the fans up for about 2 secounds and then shut down. It would keep doing this until I switched it off at the mains. Removed everything from the system, even down to no video card, just CPU and memory and still the same.
Installed my old CPU, motherboard and memory and that worked fine. Tried the new bits again, still no joy. Spoke to Overclockers who told me to fetch it in for testing. They now have the old board and I bought another board, because when they test it and I assume find faulty, they will refund me my money.
Get home and rebuild system with new board. Did a basic build with CPU, memory and video card only and the system booted. Spent the next hour building the system, switched it all on and installed o/s etc. I upgraded the BIOS to 14 and have not overclocked it. Again switched it off overnight.
Next morning get the same problem with the system powering up for about 2 seconds and then turning off and repeating this until I switch it off at the mains. The error code displayed was 9.9., which says Complete Power Off Sequence.
As an act of desperation before I threw the system out of the window, I reset the CMOS using the switch on the back. System now powers up, no problem.
Spent the whole day finishing off the o/s install and installing my own software. Again lots of reboots and a couple of power cycles as well. Again switched it off overnight.
This morning, same problem, powering up for 2 seconds and BIOS code 9.9. Reset CMOS and all is well.
Am I very unucky that I have had 2 duff systems with faulty CMOS batteries (highly unlikely) or do I have another faulty motherboard?