E6500 incompatable with SP9400 Processor?

Hey,
well I recently purchased a ES SP9400 intel processor for my work E6500. What's weird is after installing it, the machine boots, but then shuts off after 10-15 seconds. I figured it was getting hot or something weird like that so I reseated the processor and heatsink several times. Nothing has helped and the machine posts, it just turns off. I am running bios A18. Anyone ran into this issue before?
TIA

 

I thought the SP9400 used a BGA (ie soldered) mounting. And Intel says it is BGA956. The P9500, for example, uses BGA479 or, most commonly, PGA478.

Perhaps the BIOS can't figure out what CPU it is since you seem to have a BGA 956 in a PGA478 mounting.

John

 

Hummm that's a very good thought. here is the link to the ES code. It's very weird that it posts though, and then turns off after 10 seconds...

 

I can understand why the ES versions of the SP9400 were provided with a PGA mounting for ease of product development and testing but the final products are soldered to reduce thickness (as in the E4300). The E6500 would not expect to encounter an SP9400.

John

 

yes I'm sure you are right. A bummer for me as this would have been a nice upgrade for the work computer. Oh well, guess I'll get rid of it.

 

Just curious about the type of error you're getting.
Are you expeiencing a situation where it turns on but nothing comes on the screen, shuts down after ~10 seconds, and then gives a POST error?

 

that is what is weird. the machine posts. If i enter the bios, itll pop up, but after ~10 secs the computer shuts off. If I let it start to load windows, it does the same thing. I dont get it...

 

Could it be a bad processor? Maybe someone pushed the ES too far beyond it's limits and fried some not-so-critical transistors?

Pure speculation on my part of course... though I do have a friend who bent one of the pins of his Phenom 2 x4 CPU. He tried to bring it back to life by bending the pin back. Amazingly, it worked and posted, but it was always unstable 40 mins after POST.