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CPU upgrade problem
On my P4P800 Dlx, I upgraded my P4 2.8 to a 3.2. Now at every boot I get
the dreaded "New CPU Installed! Press F1 to go into bios. Press F2 to continue with default settings". No matter how many times I go into the bios and change things, it still finds the new CPU. Next issue, once I am in windows WPUID shows two processors as normal but each of them are exactly half the proper speed! They each show about 1.6. I don't recall them being halved with the 2.8. Help? Anyone? Thanks! |
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Cold War Relic wrote in
6.16: On my P4P800 Dlx, I upgraded my P4 2.8 to a 3.2. Now at every boot I get the dreaded "New CPU Installed! Press F1 to go into bios. Press F2 to continue with default settings". No matter how many times I go into the bios and change things, it still finds the new CPU. Next issue, once I am in windows WPUID shows two processors as normal but each of them are exactly half the proper speed! They each show about 1.6. I don't recall them being halved with the 2.8. Help? Anyone? Thanks! Also, I re-flashed the bios, cleared the RTC and the other suggestions I found on Google with no luck. |
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Maybe you should look in BIOS Setup and then in Advanced Chipset Features,
where you can change the CPU Frequency Multiple a.s.o. to get the right values? "Cold War Relic" wrote in message 6.16... Cold War Relic wrote in 6.16: On my P4P800 Dlx, I upgraded my P4 2.8 to a 3.2. Now at every boot I get the dreaded "New CPU Installed! Press F1 to go into bios. Press F2 to continue with default settings". No matter how many times I go into the bios and change things, it still finds the new CPU. Next issue, once I am in windows WPUID shows two processors as normal but each of them are exactly half the proper speed! They each show about 1.6. I don't recall them being halved with the 2.8. Help? Anyone? Thanks! Also, I re-flashed the bios, cleared the RTC and the other suggestions I found on Google with no luck. |
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In article , Cold War
Relic wrote: Cold War Relic wrote in 6.16: On my P4P800 Dlx, I upgraded my P4 2.8 to a 3.2. Now at every boot I get the dreaded "New CPU Installed! Press F1 to go into bios. Press F2 to continue with default settings". No matter how many times I go into the bios and change things, it still finds the new CPU. Next issue, once I am in windows WPUID shows two processors as normal but each of them are exactly half the proper speed! They each show about 1.6. I don't recall them being halved with the 2.8. Help? Anyone? Thanks! Also, I re-flashed the bios, cleared the RTC and the other suggestions I found on Google with no luck. Have you taken a look in the BIOS, to see if the claimed speed is halved in there as well ? The BIOS is modal, and sometimes extra settings show up, like when switching the "AI Overclocking Tuner" to [Manual]. Check in the BIOS, to see if the FSB is running at 100MHz (=FSB400) or 200MHz (=FSB800). The multiplier is locked, so the only way to adjust is via the FSB setting. The processor has two pins on the bottom, called BSEL for Bus Select. These pins indicate that the clock should be 100MHz, 133MHz, 200MHz, or a reserved value. If one of the BSEL pins is not sensed properly, that could cause an auto selection of bus frequency to be set to half the normal value. Root causes for this could be: defective processor, brass standoff shorting to motherboard socket, bent pin on processor. Every time you boot the computer, the BIOS records the hardware detected, including the processor type. If the BIOS were having some kind of problem recording this information, then when it compares what was written in ESCD on the last boot, to what it finds now, that will give the "New CPU Detected". Causes for this could be: BIOS version doesn't support processor, writing to ESCD is failing (it is part of the flash chip), BIOS bug. Check this page, to see what BIOS is needed to work properly with the 3.2Ghz processor. It is also possible, that the BIOS flash didn't "take". Flashing these boards is problematic, due to some of the BIOS updates needing to update the Boot Block - the Asus flashing instructions seem to change on a per-release basis. http://www.asus.com.tw/support/cpusu...pusupport.aspx HTH, Paul |
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