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BIOS Freezes
I have just gotten a new processor and motherboard and when I try to go
into BIOS, since the boot screen says "Warning: CPU Clock speed set too high" or something like that, the BIOS screen freezes after a few seconds of being on it. I tried putting it all on fail-safe and seeing what happens if I just press F1 to just go on ignoring the warning, but it still freezes a bit after post. The weird thing is that when I got far enough into the BIOS I saw that the multiplier and the FSB were not even high. I have a Athlon XP 2200+ and the FSB was just set at 133MHz and the multiplier was at 10 or 13, last I remember. Oh and apparently this might help: Athlon XP 2200+ thoroughbred 512 DDR400 RAM FIC AU13 Board |
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"Farinata" wrote in message
. .. I have just gotten a new processor and motherboard and when I try to go into BIOS, since the boot screen says "Warning: CPU Clock speed set too high" or something like that, the BIOS screen freezes after a few seconds of being on it. I tried putting it all on fail-safe and seeing what happens if I just press F1 to just go on ignoring the warning, but it still freezes a bit after post. The weird thing is that when I got far enough into the BIOS I saw that the multiplier and the FSB were not even high. I have a Athlon XP 2200+ and the FSB was just set at 133MHz and the multiplier was at 10 or 13, last I remember. Oh and apparently this might help: Athlon XP 2200+ thoroughbred 512 DDR400 RAM FIC AU13 Board I'd never heard of your board, but notice it's another Nforce2 like my Abit NF7-S (but without Soundstorm and other goodies). My XP2100 t'bred runs at 133x13, so yours sounds right. I can also do 133x10 if I choose, but my BIOS on my nforce2 board will often do this by itself unless I go in to BIOS and save out! This might be a quirk of my board or NForce2s in general, but it's worth watching out for. Borrow a slower XP if you can find one. If an old Palomino doesn't work, your board must be a pile of crap- RMA it! What does your BIOS ID the chip as (assuming you don't HAVE to manually set it)? Maybe you were sold a mislabelled chip? The only BIOS update I can see at FIC is labelled TFA42 'initial release' so there's nothing you can do there. Talking of freezing, the FIC site freezes if I try to go to the main BIOS page, so I can't check anything else out. |
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