Hi. I have a very odd Problem about a moth ago i was Surfing the internet left the compputer on to get some thing to eat. I came back it the screen was black and it would not respond to me so i ture it off and it said (com settings Wrong coms date not set) lost all of the bios seting so i reset it and saved it booped up fine but then i tryed to restart and it just set there on a blank screen. so i restart and it gives me that erro Message. I called ASUS and they did't really know what to do they siad to replace the Battery on the M/B and i did but still same thing. Then i had them send me a new bios chip same but till same thing.Then computer is OC p4 3.2/3.75. but now i can only go to 3.6 and still wont restart. i tryed turing of the OC still wont restart. Is this a M/B Problem or CPU?
i tested the PSU it fine i tryed my bro PSU same thing. I just dont know what to do with it Please HELP me.M/B P4C800e-Deluxe

Could be bad ram or bad psu.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

I tested it with Mem test all night last night no errors

Asus told me that it could be grounded but i called pcpowerandcooling and he siad you want it grounded to the PSU also Asus siad that the south Bridge could be going bad.

Well you seem to have an idea and Asus could be right on the south bridge going bad. I mean if the processor is fine and the ram is fine and the psu is fine, but you are still having problems then it seems like the motherboard is going on you.

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ OC 2.7ghz
2GB Dual Channel DDR 3200
Nvidia 7900GT
SATA II 2x 200gig 7200rpm 16mb cache RAID-0
Gigabyte Nforce 4 SLI

"i tested the PSU it fine i tryed my bro PSU same thing"

How did you test it? Voltmeter/Ammeter & load teser?

I took His PuS and tryed it on my but it still did the same thing and i tryed my PUS on his computer it and works on his but i did't try a voltmeter on it. we do have a PUS tester it just tests to see if your geting 3.3 v and 12v 5.it siad it was ok.

It could be you are experiencing S.N.D.S a.k.a Sudden Northwood Death Syndrome...

http://www.ocforums.com/showthread.php?t=115166

TMP-Man

Asus P5P800-SE
P4 506 @ 4100Mhz 1.525v
Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 2000RPM FAN + AS5
1GB Corsair 2-3-3-5 DDR400
40GB 5400RPM/120GB 7200RPM HD
Radoen 9500 mod 9700 @ 375/600 CHS+RHS

I read abou the S.N.D.S dose that really happen? its been OC Sense last August and was fine in till now. if it is that what would i do? seen it back to intel? could they tell that i OC it?

This is odd i ran Prime95 for 1 hour and 25 mimutes and it had a Fatal Error (Resulting sun was -284999644893272.6;expected:10094085103197.76
Hardware failure detected;consult stress.txt file. what dose this mean?

If the processor itself is not physically damaged or modify (applies to lapping), then there is no way they can tell if you had overclock the processor... My question is that does it run stable at stock settings?

TMP-Man

Asus P5P800-SE
P4 506 @ 4100Mhz 1.525v
Thermaltake CLP0024 w/ 2000RPM FAN + AS5
1GB Corsair 2-3-3-5 DDR400
40GB 5400RPM/120GB 7200RPM HD
Radoen 9500 mod 9700 @ 375/600 CHS+RHS

yes at 3.2 it dose but still will not restat. should i take it to best buy and have Geek squad test it? and could intel tell that i have use AS5 on it if i cleand it really good?

You overclocked it and now it doesn't work? Amazing. Cause ----> Effect?

It has been OC scene last august. I don’t think the OC caused it. I think it might be the M/B because I was trying to see if it would let me OC to 3.75 again it tried but it said it was a 2.81 I had to take the battery out to fix it. If the CPU was going bad would it do this?

"I don’t think the OC caused it. I think it might be the M/B "

I see.

Here is a update on this problem I took it to geek squad and they ran tests on it the hard drive was bad. So I got a new hard drive and it restarts now. After I reloaded windows I OC the CPU to 3.61 and it restarted but about 30 min later it would not restart. It only doses it when I raise the CPU clock up. And now im getting bleu screen a lot some times when it dose this it will say I have a 3.21 and 2.81. Is the CPU going on me or M/B?
Geek squad said the CPU and M/B and RAM tested fine.

Well I have finely found the problem the CPU is going out on me. I tested my sister laptop CPU in it and it worked fine I OC it to 3.6 and it will restart. So I called Intel and they gave me a RMA on the CPU. I would like to thank all the people for helping me with this and for answering so fast. Here is some bad new about 4 days ago my bro (Bigzam12) was loading his OS on his new hard drive and his comp turn off and would not turn back on so we took it to Geek squad and they said the M/B GPU PSU and maybe Ram was gone. They could not test the ram or the cpu my question is could the cpu be fried? His sound card was ok and hard drives geek squad said it might be ok. The darn PSU fried it had always not worked right when you would move that 24 pin M\B connector it would just turn off but we did’t think it would fire the comp. If the CPU is fried and Intel know they will not rma it so what would we tell them?