NVRAM Problem

[marcbkk]

I am running an ASUS P4P800S-X Motherboard with a P4 3.0GHz CPU, 1GB
of DDR Ram consisting of two 512 chips, and an ASUS Radeon 9550SE VGA
card.

Recently I started having problems on boot-up where during the boot
sequence the computer would freeze when it reached the NVRAM check.

The screen will say

DDR Frequency 400 Mhz
Checking NVRAM..

And then it stops booting up.

If I turn off the power and reboot it then gets past that part on the
second boot and shows the following instead:

[color=blue:ed1f26a3d6]Overclocking Failed! Please enter Setup to
re-configure your system.[/color:ed1f26a3d6]

If I then press F1 to enter the Bios Setup menu and exit without
changing anything the computer boots up fine.

This problem now happens every time I boot my PC from having been
powered off.

At first I thought maybe the Ram chips were loose so I took them out
and swapped the slots. That didn’t help.

Now I am thinking it may be a BIOS setting, but I am not sure what I
would need to reset in the BIOS to fix the problem.

Any ideas would be kindly appreciated.

 

[Ghostrider]

I am running an ASUS P4P800S-X Motherboard with a P4 3.0GHz CPU, 1GB
of DDR Ram consisting of two 512 chips, and an ASUS Radeon 9550SE VGA
card.

Recently I started having problems on boot-up where during the boot
sequence the computer would freeze when it reached the NVRAM check.

The screen will say

DDR Frequency 400 Mhz
Checking NVRAM..

And then it stops booting up.

If I turn off the power and reboot it then gets past that part on the
second boot and shows the following instead:

[color=blue:ed1f26a3d6]Overclocking Failed! Please enter Setup to
re-configure your system.[/color:ed1f26a3d6]

If I then press F1 to enter the Bios Setup menu and exit without
changing anything the computer boots up fine.

This problem now happens every time I boot my PC from having been
powered off.

At first I thought maybe the Ram chips were loose so I took them out
and swapped the slots. That didn�t help.

Now I am thinking it may be a BIOS setting, but I am not sure what I
would need to reset in the BIOS to fix the problem.

Any ideas would be kindly appreciated.

As a first step, I would change the CMOS battery. Next,
ascertain that the setting for PnP OS is "disable" in bios
setup.