Motherboard not correctly recognising CPU

Quick question folks.

A mate of mine has a QX9650 and an Asus Striker Extreme motherboard.

However, the motherboard does not seem to take full advantage of the sheer power of the CPU. Upon startup, it says the BIOS requires an update to take full advantage of the CPU. When I run the asus update utility, it says no update to the bios is available.

The CPU instead runs at 2.0GHz rather than the 3.0 it should run at.

No overclocking is required or desired.

As it stands, he doesnt seem to be the only person with this problem

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...readid=2119862
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...me-bios-update

Does anyone know how to fix the problem. Perhaps there is a source of unnofficial BIOS's that would work, or if Asus will update their own BIOS any time soon.

Thanks.
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farco wrote:
Quick question folks.

A mate of mine has a QX9650 and an Asus Striker Extreme motherboard.

However, the motherboard does not seem to take full advantage of the
sheer power of the CPU. Upon startup, it says the BIOS requires an
update to take full advantage of the CPU. When I run the asus update
utility, it says no update to the bios is available.

The CPU instead runs at 2.0GHz rather than the 3.0 it should run at.

No overclocking is required or desired.

As it stands, he doesnt seem to be the only person with this problem

http://forums.anandtech.com/messagev...readid=2119862
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/...me-bios-update

Does anyone know how to fix the problem. Perhaps there is a source of
unnofficial BIOS's that would work, or if Asus will update their own
BIOS any time soon.

Thanks.

The QX9650 is not in the supported CPU list. Pretty hard to find a BIOS
update, if it just isn't supported. Always check the list, before
buying hardware.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...iker%20extreme

"NVIDIA nForce 680i Motherboards Do Not Support Quad Core Yorkfield"
http://www.techpowerup.com/?45622

"...a motherboard circuit change is required for quad core YF"

The above quote, means that first generation 680i boards would
not support the processor. Maybe there is an indication somewhere,
as to what the circuit change would be, but it doesn't have to be
something that would be easy to do. At least one company, did the
right thing, and offered an ungrade at a reasonable price.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/dai...penryn_support

I wish I could read your links above, but the links are truncated.

You can use the CPUSupport page, to identify boards that will
support QX9650. (I manually wrapped this link, so you'll have to
paste it back together.)

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...r.aspx?type=0&
name=Core%202%20Extreme%20QX9650%20(3.00GHz%2C1333 FSB%2CL2%3A2X6MB%2Crev.C0%2C4%20cores)&SLanguage=e n-us

HTH,
Paul

On Fri, 30 May 2008 12:34:19 -0400, Paul wrote:


"NVIDIA nForce 680i Motherboards Do Not Support Quad Core Yorkfield"
http://www.techpowerup.com/?45622

"...a motherboard circuit change is required for quad core YF"

The above quote, means that first generation 680i boards would
not support the processor. Maybe there is an indication somewhere,
as to what the circuit change would be, but it doesn't have to be
something that would be easy to do.
Paul

Does this mean that if a motherboard supports Yorkfield the bios
will actually recognize the chip so there's no boot bios update
issues for new owners ?