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A7N8X can't access bios setup at all, hangs at "WARNING!! CPU HAVE BEEN CHANGED"
New A7N8X Deluxe hangs at post: "WARNING!! CPU HAVE BEEN CHANGED"
Replaced an A7m266 that was running fine for about 3 1/2 years. Have the XP2100 CPU, 400 Watt power supply Antec, 512 ram pc2100. pressing DEL will not even let me update/enter the bios setup. Tried clearing CMOS, and now I get... "CMOS checksum error- Defaultsloaded" and then... "The system was not correctly shut down and is working in safe mode speed, please press DEL to BIOS setup table to set correct CPU speed" BUT I STILL can't access the damn BIOS. Tried holding DEL down as I power up-nothing. Just locks up at the above mantioned error message. ALT-F2 won't boot off a Win98 startup floppy even, so I can't even flash the BIOS if I wanted to because I can't even get to an A:\ prompt. |
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I know, it's a dumb question, but do you have the keyboard and mouse
switched? The keyboard plugged into the mouse port and the mouse into the keyboard port?? JVC "John Q Public" wrote in message ... New A7N8X Deluxe hangs at post: "WARNING!! CPU HAVE BEEN CHANGED" Replaced an A7m266 that was running fine for about 3 1/2 years. Have the XP2100 CPU, 400 Watt power supply Antec, 512 ram pc2100. pressing DEL will not even let me update/enter the bios setup. Tried clearing CMOS, and now I get... "CMOS checksum error- Defaultsloaded" and then... "The system was not correctly shut down and is working in safe mode speed, please press DEL to BIOS setup table to set correct CPU speed" BUT I STILL can't access the damn BIOS. Tried holding DEL down as I power up-nothing. Just locks up at the above mantioned error message. ALT-F2 won't boot off a Win98 startup floppy even, so I can't even flash the BIOS if I wanted to because I can't even get to an A:\ prompt. |
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I had exactly the same board and the same upgrade, only an AMD 2000.
The same problems occured on my board and was corrected when I changed my memory. What memory do you have? I was using Samsung (recommend list by Asus), but when I changed to OCZ my problem was gone. However you might want to check the heat compound between your processor and heatsink. Make sure you have only a very slight amount of arctic silver, and work the seating of the heatsink to the processor. This will make a huge difference in the temps. By the way, I still find my A7M266 board to process renderings faster than the A7N8X, even though the processor is only a Athlon1200. Hope this helps, Cheers, Alan "John Q Public" wrote in message ... New A7N8X Deluxe hangs at post: "WARNING!! CPU HAVE BEEN CHANGED" Replaced an A7m266 that was running fine for about 3 1/2 years. Have the XP2100 CPU, 400 Watt power supply Antec, 512 ram pc2100. pressing DEL will not even let me update/enter the bios setup. Tried clearing CMOS, and now I get... "CMOS checksum error- Defaultsloaded" and then... "The system was not correctly shut down and is working in safe mode speed, please press DEL to BIOS setup table to set correct CPU speed" BUT I STILL can't access the damn BIOS. Tried holding DEL down as I power up-nothing. Just locks up at the above mantioned error message. ALT-F2 won't boot off a Win98 startup floppy even, so I can't even flash the BIOS if I wanted to because I can't even get to an A:\ prompt. |
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