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ASROCK K&NF2-RAID motherboard probl
Name: shauncwalsh Date: January 21, 2007 at 10:47:29 Pacific OS: WIN XP SP2 CPU/Ram: Athlon XP 2600 266fsb 512 Product: Homebuild
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Just installed a new motherboard and on POST I get this message "mac address are invalid in both cmos and flash" Pressing F1 continues the boot sequence, any suggestions on how to solve this? Thanks
Name: jam Date: January 21, 2007 at 11:27:24 Pacific
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Have you configured the BIOS settings yet? I see you have a 266FSB CPU with PC3200 RAM. Make sure your set the RAM to run as PC2100/DDR266 to match the CPU bus. And there's probably several other settings that need to be tweaked as well. For example, if you're not running RAID, disable it.
If the problems continue, you may wanna try updating the BIOS. Actually, I just had a look at the ASRock site & here's what the latest BIOS fixes:
"Modify MAC address function algorithm"
So it does appear a BIOS update will be necessary.
Name: shauncwalsh Date: January 21, 2007 at 11:39:33 Pacific
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Set up the bios with cpu and memory speeds synchronised, SATA and raid disabled as I am running all IDE devices. I was thinking about flashing the bios, hope its not too difficult. Shaun
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Response Number 3
Name: shauncwalsh Date: January 21, 2007 at 12:28:07 Pacific
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OK flashed the bios and still the same problem, any other suggestions?
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Response Number 4
Name: shauncwalsh Date: January 21, 2007 at 12:28:45 Pacific
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That should be K7NF2-RAID
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Response Number 5
Name: Tubesandwires Date: January 21, 2007 at 12:40:38 Pacific
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"OK flashed the bios and still the same problem, any other suggestions?"
You must go into the bios Setup and load Bios Defaults, save settings, in order to clear the cmos contents of the old bios version's version of the cmos settings.
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Response Number 6
Name: shauncwalsh Date: January 22, 2007 at 00:36:40 Pacific
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Done that too, followed the instructions on the Asrock web site to the letter. Shaun
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Response Number 7
Name: Tubesandwires Date: January 22, 2007 at 11:18:36 Pacific
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I assume the mac address is for the onboard onboard ethernet/LAN adapter. Have you tried disabling that in the bios Setup? If that gets rid of the error, wired PCI 10/100mbps network cards are cheap, if you need one, and are plenty fast enough for the internet (10mbps is fast enough for the internet).
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Response Number 8
Name: shauncwalsh Date: January 23, 2007 at 02:21:38 Pacific
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Yes I have tried that and no it does not get rid of the error, guess I will have to return the MB for a replacement Shaun
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