Motherboard problems

[kristos]

motherboard problems

hey,

Whenever the pc boots, I get an overclocking error so it prompts me to either load defaults and continue, or to enter setup.

when I choose load defaults and continue, I can boot withouth problems, but i can't overclock for sh*t because of the standard Vcore setting.

when I choose enter setup and the save and exit, the screen just goes in standby and I can't reboot the system.

All I can do then is cold boot, but then I get the same error again and it starts all over again.

plz :help:

thanks in advance,

kristos

specs:

asus p4c800e-dlx 1019 bios

p4c 2.8 M0

 

[ZaX]

Hi, odly enough I had almost exactly the same problem yesterday. I wanted to see how stable my system was so I fired up Prime 95 and I started to play CS Source. Well after a while the machine froze so I restarted it and then I was faced with the fact that all my bios settings had been reset. I entered the bios set them as they were before but upon reboot the bios was reset again. I knocked back the overclock and things were fine but I didnt want to run my machine at 3.9 Ghz. I switched off and cleared the bios by removing the battery, I also decided to check the variable resistor in my Droop mod. Well somehow it had changed to 42 K so I changed it back to 28 K, that took quite a few turns. Well the machine is back up now to its previous overclock.

All I can say to you Kristos is clear the cmos by removing the battery and check your Vmods if you have any.

Any ideas anyone on how the variable resistor could have changed by so much? it took about 10 turns to get it back to 28 K.

 

[HARRY]

sounds like you need a new cmos battery to me mate ,but try and flash your bios first hope this helps

 

[kristos]

ok quick copy paste cuz I don't have time right now, I'll answer more in depth later:

yes, I ran this setup previously without any problems up to 4 gig on air.

and with some prescotts who didn't' clock as high as the northy but overclocking itself was no problem at all.

the only "problem" if you can call it that was that sometimes I'd get the errormessage:

overclocking failed! please enter setup to re-configure your system. press del to enter setup or press F2 to load default values and continue.

but on air, I could just enter bios, leave all the settings unchanged and save and exit and it would boot without problems again.

now with the prommy, I get the same message (and a cpu temperature error).

I just loaded defaults, booted into windows and did a restart. went into the bios and changed only the Vcore and saved and exit.

bios didn't hang this time...

*edit* bios is displayed in odd colors now but I now changed ram divider and set pci/agp lock, saved and exit and it still boots :banana:

I'l do some more testing asap but it's newyear and I need to get ready

happy newyear to all!! may it be a prosperous year

 

[Barkerd]

May be try to flash back to older BIOS say 1016, since when I flashed to 1019 I started getting problems

 

[kristos]

ok, mounted everything outside the case and that seems to have helped. the bios didn't give me any trouble yet... but now I have other problems:

the proc oc's worse then under air!!

it did 4gig on air superpi 1M stable @1.7V bios (no droop)

but when I set it to 3.8 gig with clockgen it hangs and that's @ 1.7V bios (droop) 1.76V cpu-z.

another thing is that the prom goes from -60° under load to as low as -16° when priming.

and there's a spot on the hose where it feels very hot on one side and very cold on the other side, nowhere else on the hose can I feel such extreme temperatures...