Z440 memory modules question

[1patriotofmany]

Well it looks like I'm truly boned. I don't know when but I have a bunch of pins that look bent from my bad eyes with a bunch of paper like substance embedded in the socket pins I can't vacuum out or spray out with an "Air can". I think when I pulled the 2699v3 and put in the I7 I must of tried to clean the pins with an alcohol pad. Now I've got pieces of that paper as well as hair all in the socket as well as looks like bent pins, with my eye and magnifying glass i'll never be able to fix this mess. Plus when I put the I7 in i used way too much paste, it was on some of the pads of the I7.......  No wonder it won't get past the memory beeps with either 32 or 16gb modules. Is this worth taking to a computer shop and see if they can get the socket straightened out or should I call it a day and just buy another $279 complete computer and start again and have the rest as a spare.

[1patriotofmany]

My friend, i've been working/building computers since the 486, I really bollixed this one up. I just went ahead and bought two pulled motherboards. This could probably be fixed with someone with good eyes and steady hand, but it ain't me as the song goes.....  Now to wait and see if i can get the I7 going, or did that go kaput from this mess too.....

[NonSequitur777]

@1patriotofmany,

Yip, we live in a cold and indifferent universe...

I would think that your Intel Core processor is likely just fine, unless Mr. (or Mrs.) Murphy hit you square in the face with a Cluster F.

Please make sure that there are no bend pins and/or debris on the business side of it.

Please let me know how it goes!

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[1patriotofmany]

Hey NonSequitur777, Is the I7-6900K we've bought unlocked?  I'm wondering cause I'm seeing on amazon brand new boxed Core I7-6900K unlocked for not much more than I paid for the used one on $bay!  That would be interesting to mess around with and see how fast stably it could be run on a Z440.

[NonSequitur777]

@1patriotofmany,

Yes, the i7-6900K is indeed an unlocked processor aka an overclockable CPU, but unfortunately, we can't use that feature on an HP Z440 Workstation.

In order to overclock an Intel Core i7-6900K (Broadwell-E, LGA 2011-v3, 8-Cores/16-Threads, unlocked multiplier), you need a high-end Intel X99 chipset motherboard that supports overclocking, such as an Asus X99-DELUXE II.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[1patriotofmany]

The intel extreme utility doesn't work on these? No biggie, I never really got into overclocking. just curious. Thanks for the headsup.

[NonSequitur777]

@1patriotofmany,

No, Intel's XMP doesn't allow you to overclock the i7-6900K in an HP Z440 Workstation.

Kind Regards,

NonSequitur777

[1patriotofmany]

Okay my friend I'm stumped. Got a replacement board -002, Installed brand new I7-6900K booted right into bios, bifurcated number 5 slot for 4x4x4x4 so the NVME drive would be properly set. Saved the settings, restarted and now 6 beeps!  According to what I read, that's something about graphics, it's a brand new 3600 card and it worked fine with the same type motherboard before I screwed up the socket pins.  Can you do me a favor and take a screen shot of every setting you have in bios? i changed some stuff like the bifurcation and it had a bunch of option modules enabled which i disabled, maybe something i changed needs to be back?  I'm going to try resetting the bios and see if I can get back into it. Only thing i can think of is the I7 6900K, but it did recognize it in bios. Maybe I need to have legacy as the boot or something.

Regards, Bob

[1patriotofmany]

Ok, So I removed the NVME PCIE card and 3600 graphics card, started it and of course gopt the 6 beeps. shut it down un plugged it, reset bios. put cards back in and it booted to windows using the ssd drive. Of course when I went back and changed bios to have the NVME card boot, it couldn't find it. Now the computer tried to fix the ssd install which is different than the board it used before and can't fix the install.  But the nice thing about these HP workstations, you can reinstall windows from the cloud!  So currently reinstalling windows  from the cloud, once that gets done, I'll initialize and copy windows to the NVME card.   I'M SO DARNED GLAD I DIDN'T BRICK the board messing around in bios. The I7-6900K is running fine and once everything is up and running from the NVME card, I'll add more memory, only have 32GB on two sticks of 16 In it currently. Maybe I'll try the 32GB sticks next. They worked fine with the original cpu 2699V3.

[1patriotofmany]

Update, Win10 install worked, but now i have to figure out how to get the NMVE to be the boot drive and work. I suspect I'm going to have to wipe out the programs and stuff i had on it, not many but still.  The NVME is seen but it's not acting as a boot drive like it used to. Guess I'll play with that tomorrow.     In the meantime I ran userbenchmark and got aircraft carrier/aircraft carrier/aircraft carrier all in the mid to high 80%, that's with the ssd drive and I'm not sure if i have the latest nvidia driver. I still need to update the mother board bios also(it's the 2019 one currently).  Once I get the NVME drive going as the boot again, I'm thinking the usermark scores are going to get a bit better.   I also ordered another Z440 to play around with, probably give it to a daughter who needs a cheap updated desktop for gaming. These things are great for sub $200 base computers!   Thanks for the post about your build using the I7-6900K! So far so good now that I didn't wreck this board.