Pin mod on Q6600 for 90xC

Hello all,

First off my thanks to all the quality posters here for providing me lots of useful data for my D90xC Clevo system.

Without the help of those here I wouldn't know what my options were for breathing new life and upgrades into this excellent piece of hardware.

However, I've been trying to do the pin mod for the Q6600 as outlined in these forums, having tried both the electrical tape modification alone and even the Conductive paint option. Neither of these have had any effect whatsoever on my Q6600 G0 revision chip.

I was curious if anyone else out there had additional suggestions or ideas on what I may be missing?

The electrical tape seemed to be consitently punctured by the pins on the mobo chip socket, even at several layers thick (reluctant to do more than 4 layers, but perhaps I can try thicker).

The Window Defogger paint job seemed wholly unsuccessful. It's possible it needed to dry more (didn't do a 24 hour dry period, but it seemed solid) but it too produced no results.

My system is supposed to be 1333 capable on the motherboard though I've yet to find ANY bios improvements for this platform (including 3rd party hacked bioses, should such exist).

Anyone out there willing to give me some ideas or explanations on what I'm missing? I'm currently using PC2-5300 RAM as opposed to my desired PC2-6400 (on the upgrade plan) but I couldn't envision why that would have any impact.

I've also researched Clockgen and SETFSB options as best I can from the information assembled in the forum here and found no options that seemed viable.

Any help or assistance is welcome from those that may have attempted/succeeded at overclocking their own D900 series systems.

My thanks all,

Arrakeyn

 

What is your Motherboard Revision?

 

Good question and thanks for the efforts on assisting! I'll see if I can spot that inside the case. It's not listed as part of the shipping manifest I had that I could see (from when I first received the Laptop).

Is there a known revision issue on the motherboards?

CPU-Z reports the following:

Motherboard
Clevo
D900C Revision D
Intel P965.G965 Rev. C2
Intel 82801HB/HR (ICH8/R)

Bios
Phoenix Technologies LTD
Version 6.00 (this is puzzling considering I updated the bios successfully to .22... obvious a versioning report issue there)
11/18/2008

 

There should be sticker next to or on the Ram slots with your revision. mine states 6.2.

Bracken

 

ok, not sure which of the 3 stickers is the right one here so:

Red and white sticker with punch marks on specific zones labeled EC, Warranty void if removed -> 8 07

other sticker, shows 0605n7

last sticker is actually along the ram socket itself: NKD901C07F00311


so i'm guessing revision 7 based on the fact '07' shoes up repeatedly across all three stickers, though as I said before, CPU-Z reports revision value that would suggest otherwise.

thanks for the continued assist.

 

None of them looks like the mobo revision. Try removing the top stick of ram, the mobo revision might be on the slot underneath.

 

Did that already theriko. The descriptions provided are the only stickers visible so not sure where else I should be looking. I'm a tech myself so nothing here is leaping at me as clearly the mobo revision.

I take it the CPU-Z report of the mobo revision is known inaccurate?