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CMOS Checksum Error - Press F1 to Continue or DEL to enter set-up..........
Im doing a friend what I thought was a favor. You see he had an old
Pentium III-800/Intel 815 Chipset that he was growing tired of and with "Fry's Electronix" offering a CPU/Mobo Bundle @ $59 how could he pass that up? So here's the scoop: I installed his new ECS mobo~K7VTA3(v.8C) with an AMD Sempron 2500+ and when I boot up I get this prompt: CMOS Checksum Error Press F1 to Continue or DEL to enter set-up.............. I pressed DEL and my screen went black & nothing...........Re-boot and now I don't even get the CMOS prompt & my LCD monitor green light is lighting on & off with nothing on my screen. I cleared the CMOS via the jumper on the mobo, but still nothing comes up, just black........ Is this a battery issue, god I hope I didnt fry the Video Card...........that would suck............. any thoughts on this? OS = WIN XP (professional) ECS K7VTA3 (KT 333 chipset) 1 stick of PC2700 DDR (333) |
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Here's some more info.........
250 watt Power Supply Asus GeForce 4 Video Card Any help would be greatly appreciated........... |
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I had that when I updated the bios but unchecked reset everything to
default. I pressed DEL and re-setup the bios the way I like it and now it's fine. Please try it. If you have problems setting up the bios, read the mobo manual + google "bios optimization guide". "Brian Mahan" ??? om ???... Here's some more info......... 250 watt Power Supply Asus GeForce 4 Video Card Any help would be greatly appreciated........... |
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Does the 250 watt power supply, that used to power the Intel III /
800mhz CPU, have the same 20-pin connector as today's power supplies that power up an Intel P4 or AMD Athlon 2500+ ? I've read somewhere that the main power connector from the power supply to the mobo is different? Is this true? And I took some multimeter readings on the a spare power connector....... They are as follows: 12v pin measured only 11.5 V DC 5v pin measured only 4.8 V DC Didnt check the 3.3 pin however.............. Could his Vid Card not be getting enough juice? The AGP gets fed by the 3.3 Rail right? Would 3.0 not be sufficient? I mean it ran b4 w/out a problem...Is it because the AMD Sempron is needing more wattage & it's taking more juice so that there's less juice on the 3.3 rail to properly drive the AGP GeForce 4 Vid Card? TY every1 for your advice.............. |
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"Brian Mahan" ??? m ???... Does the 250 watt power supply, that used to power the Intel III / 800mhz CPU, have the same 20-pin connector as today's power supplies that power up an Intel P4 or AMD Athlon 2500+ ? I've read somewhere that the main power connector from the power supply to the mobo is different? Is this true? The ATX connector is the same for P3 and P4's. The only difference is a "P4 Capable PSU" has an extra 4 pin plug supplying addtional power to the CPU. A "P3 PSU" won't have that, but it'd still have the same 20 pin ATX connector. I've never used a 250W PSU since the P2 days and don't know how it'd perform with the GF4. |
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On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:57:22 +0800, "Bronney Hui"
wrote: "Brian Mahan" ??? om ???... Does the 250 watt power supply, that used to power the Intel III / 800mhz CPU, have the same 20-pin connector as today's power supplies that power up an Intel P4 or AMD Athlon 2500+ ? I've read somewhere that the main power connector from the power supply to the mobo is different? Is this true? The ATX connector is the same for P3 and P4's. The only difference is a "P4 Capable PSU" has an extra 4 pin plug supplying addtional power to the CPU. A "P3 PSU" won't have that, but it'd still have the same 20 pin ATX connector. What happen if only 20 pin ATX connector is plug to the motherboard but leaving 4 pin connector unplug? -- WebWalker |
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