If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Asus P4C800-E Deluxe/Pentium 4 3.2 Extreme Edition problem
I have 2 of these boards and never had a problem until now. I've been
using a P4 3.0 Northwood @ 20% AI Overclock (3.6ghz) with 1 gb Corsair TWINX-3200LLPT @ 2,3,2,6,8 for about a year now and it's been rock solid and fast. I have been using the latest BIOS (1023) since it came out in June. This morning I installed a P4 3.2 Extreme Edition (Gallatin) and when I booted it up it gave me the "New CPU installed, please enter setup to update your configuration" "press F1 to enter setup, F2 to restore BIOS defaults". I expected this and went into the BIOS, turned off the AI Overclock, set the RAM to SPD, and made sure nothing else was likely to cause a problem. I rebooted the computer and got the same message. I did this 3 times. The fourth time, I pressed F2 to set default BIOS values and it booted right up. But everytime I reboot, I get the same message again. I hit F2 and it boots OK, even though I had F2'd the BIOS Defaults the last time I rebooted. So I powered off the system, unplugged the power supply, took out the CMOS battery and changed the jumper for about a minute to completely clear out the CMOS, drain the capacitors, etc. Then I put the jumper back, put in a new CMOS battery, plugged in the power supply and fired it up. Same thing. Everytime I reboot the computer, I get the "new CPU installed" message", and if I F2 to Default BIOS Values, the computer boots up fine, but it will ask again next time I reboot. Obviously I don't want the default values, at the very least I would like to disable the Promise RAID, disable the AC97 sound, POST Speech reporter, boot-screen logo, etc. I would also like to play with the memory timings and try the AI Overclock at 10%, then 20%,etc. I spoke to the people at ASUS, the top tech said he'd never heard of this and that with the 1023 BIOS (or even an earlier one) I should have no problems with this CPU/Mobo combination, which is what I thought too. Has anyone else here experienced this kind of thing? Or have any ideas as to what might be going on? I am going to install the older P4 3.0c (I bet it'll run fine just as before), if it does, I'll take it out, reinstall the 3.2 Extreme Edition, re-flash the BIOS and try it again, draining the CMOS again first, but I am at a loss, as were the guys at ASUS. Any help/feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Here is the CPU info From CPU-Z 1.30: ---------------------- CPU-Z version 1.30 ---------------------- CPUID Output ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Number of CPUs 2 (1 Physical) CPU #1 APIC ID 0 Name Intel Pentium 4 EE Code name Gallatin Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Family/Model/Stepping F25 Extended Family/Model 0/0 Brand ID 9 Package mPGA-478 Core Stepping M0 Technology 0.13µ Instructions Sets MMX, SSE, SSE2 Clock Speed 3192.0 MHz Clock multiplier x16.0 Front Side Bus Frequency 199.5 MHz Bus Speed 798.0 MHz Stock frequency 3200 MHz L1 Data Cache 8 KBytes, 4-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L1 Trace Cache 12 Kµops, 8-way set associative L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size L2 Speed 3192.0 MHz (Full) L2 Location On Chip L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes L2 Bus Width 256 bits L3 Cache 2048 Kb ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And this from CPUInfo v2.1.3: [CPUInfo v2.1.3 - Freeware ] Processor information (CPU 1) ============================= [Processor] Processor : Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (Northwood) Current Core Speed : 3192 MHz Current System Clock : 199.5 MHz Multiplyer : 16x Core Speed : 3200 MHz System Clock : 200 MHz Front Side Bus : FSB800 (QDR) Revision : M0 Socket : Socket 478 (FC-PGA2) [CPUID] Vendor ID : GenuineIntel CPU Name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Type : Std: 0 Family : Std: 15, Ext: 0 Model : Std: 2, Ext: 0 Stepping : Std: 5, Ext: 0 Brand ID : Std: 9 CPUID Level : Std: 00000002h, Ext: 80000004h [L1 Cache] Code Cache : 12 K µOPs Data Cache : 8 KB [Other Cache] Level 2 Cache : 512 KB Level 3 Cache : 2048 KB Feature Flags (CPU 1) ===================== [Standard Feature Flags] Bit Name Description Status 0 FPU Floating Point Unit integrated Yes 1 VME V86 Mode Extension available Yes 2 DE Support of I/O breakpoints Yes 3 PSE Support of Page Size Extension Yes 4 TSC Support of Time Stamp Counter Yes 5 MSR Support of Pentium compatible MSR Yes 6 PAE Support of physical Address Extensions Yes 7 MCE Support of Machine Check Exception Yes 8 CX8 Support of CMPXCHG8B instruction Yes 9 APIC Processor contains local APIC Yes 10 --- (reserved) No 11 SEP Support of SYSENTER-/SYSEXIT Extension Yes 12 MTRR Support of Memory Type Range Register Yes 13 PGE Support of Global Paging Table Yes 14 MCA Support of Machine Check Architecture Yes 15 CMOV Support of CMOVcc (and FCMOVcc/FCOMI) Yes 16 PAT Support of Page Attribute Table Yes 17 PSE36 Support of 36-bit Page Size Extensions Yes 18 --- (reserved) No 19 CLFLSH Cache Line Flush instruction Yes 20 --- (reserved) No 21 DTES Debug Trace and EMON Store Yes 22 ACPI Processor Duty Cycle Control Yes 23 MMX Support of MultiMedia eXtensions Yes 24 FXSR Support of FXSAVE/FXRSTOR Yes 25 SSE Support of Intel ISSE extensions Yes 26 SSE2 Support of Intel ISSE2 extensions Yes 27 SS SelfSnoop Yes 28 HTT Hyper Threading Yes 29 TM Thermal Monitor Yes 30 IA-64 Intel 64-bit Architecture Implementation No 31 SBF Signal Break on FERR Yes [Extended Feature Flags] Bit Name Description Status 0 SSE3 Support of Intel ISSE3 extensions No 1 --- (reserved) No 2 --- (reserved) No 3 MONITOR Support of MONITOR/MWAIT instructions No 4 DS-CPL Support of Debug Store feature No 5 --- (reserved) No 6 --- (reserved) No 7 EIST Enhanced SpeedStep No 8 TM2 Thermal Monitor 2 No 9 --- (reserved) No 10 CID L1 Data Cache Mode (Context ID) adaptive 11 --- (reserved) No 12 --- (reserved) No 13 --- (reserved) No 14 xTPR Support of Send Task Priority Messages Yes 15 --- (reserved) No 16 --- (reserved) No 17 --- (reserved) No 18 --- (reserved) No 19 --- (reserved) No 20 --- (reserved) No 21 --- (reserved) No 22 --- (reserved) No 23 --- (reserved) No 24 --- (reserved) No 25 --- (reserved) No 26 --- (reserved) No 27 --- (reserved) No 28 --- (reserved) No 29 --- (reserved) No 30 --- (reserved) No 31 --- (reserved) No |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
In article , Roxy
wrote: This morning I installed a P4 3.2 Extreme Edition (Gallatin) and when I booted it up it gave me the "New CPU installed, please enter setup to update your configuration" "press F1 to enter setup, F2 to restore BIOS defaults". I expected this and went into the BIOS, turned off the AI Overclock, set the RAM to SPD, and made sure nothing else was likely to cause a problem. I rebooted the computer and got the same message. I did this 3 times. The fourth time, I pressed F2 to set default BIOS values and it booted right up. But everytime I reboot, I get the same message again. I hit F2 and it boots OK, even though I had F2'd the BIOS Defaults the last time I rebooted. In this article from Feb.2004, Wesley runs a 3.2EE in the board while using BIOS 1015: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1965&p=2 I checked Abxzone as well, and there is no mention of probs running with EE. About the only solution I can suggest for this, is flashing the BIOS. If the DMI/ESCD sections of the flash chip are blown away properly by a BIOS flash operation, the BIOS code should recompute the contents and fill in a fresh copy of DMI/ESCD. Maybe that will be enough to fix it. The tough part, is figuring out whether the DMI/ESCD is really getting blown away - after the BIOS is flashed (say with a DOS disk), immediately (before rebooting) make an archival copy of the BIOS to your floppy, then compare the flashed image to the archived image. The DMI/ESCD should be near the end of the flash chip (high addresses). The boot block is near the end somewhere as well. After the motherboard has POSTed at least once, make another archival copy with a flash programming tool, and compare again. Stuff near the end of the BIOS image should have been changed when the new DMI/ESCD values are written. Paul |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Questions about HDDs and Asus P4C800 delux | No Spam | Asus Motherboards | 2 | October 5th 04 12:27 AM |
Latest BIOS for Asus P4C800 Deluxe? | Adriano | Asus Motherboards | 3 | August 30th 04 03:04 AM |
ASUS support for Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition | Vigen Gharibian | Asus Motherboards | 1 | February 23rd 04 12:36 AM |
ASUS P4C800 V1.02 /V1.03 | DANAMAN | Asus Motherboards | 0 | January 23rd 04 01:10 AM |