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I came home the other day and found my new built computer was locked up on a WXP screen saver. I had to shut the power off in hopes to reload. however the machine loads up bios saying that the cpu settings are incorrect. I only get approx. 12 key strokes until the computer locks up again, i was able to change the configuration the the correct settings for my amd 2400+ thourobred and save. but when I save them it locks up again. even after the correct settings were made the bios says they are wrong. I cleared CMOS and pulled the chip, the chip was verified to be good on another machine but was recommended to use less lithium grease, I guess if you use to much it acts as an insolater. Im about to pull the board and have it checked out, but I wanted to know if there is anything else first before i go thru the trouble. Any help would be great since im completly out of ideas. thanks.
If its an nforce2 mobo you should do a search at nforcershq.com on bios problems. Lets of 'em.
If you can't save to bios it sounds like your bios is corrupted, so I would flash it. But you risk locking up in the middle of it so that's a bummer. So change the fsb to 100 and see if that allows you to be stable long enough to do the flash. Hopefully there is a mobo jumper that allows the change to 100.
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the asus A7N8X deluxe has a jumper setting for 100fsb by the north brige (its to the left) i dont know if the non deluxe has a setting for 100fsb. but what you should do is reset the comos
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Yeah thats what I thought, but when I reset the CMOS nothing changed. I mean it prompted me to the bios start up but after I set the parameters it still locked up on me. I set it as follows.
2400+ 2.00 Ghz 1.65V 15x 266 Mhz 84mm^2
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Im not sure, I will have to check tonight when I get home. What is PCB? Im still a little new.
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Software always has a version number but so do motherboards and they call it a PCB Revision which means Printed Circuit Board.
When you say what your mobo is its good to include your pcb since a mobo maker will keep one name for a mobo over a couple year period yet change the pcb many times. The ecs k7vta3 is a good example.
Side point. When nvidia made their Reference Edition of the nforce2 motherboard they included a jumper to force the 100fsb setting, yet many makers ignored this guidance and left the jumper off and it results in situations like this where you wish you could manually force a 100fsb setting but you can't. Some nforce2 boards have this jumper and some don't yet all should.
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In between the PCI slots on the A7N8X you will find the mobo's model number and its PCB revision. The A7N8X does have a jumper to force 100FSB and it is located to the bottom left of the northbridge chip, thats the chip with the big silver heatsink, I think that 100 FSB is pins 1 and 2, double check your manual.
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