bios help please

[David Ciemny]

Hi all..building a new machine here this morning. Using an athlon xp 2500+
and a msi k7n2 mobo. Pretty basic...running a basic post and everything was
fine. processor and ram were identified correctly. However I inserted the
ram in dimm slot 1 and 2. This gave me single channel instead of dual. I
needed to put it in slot 1 and 3 for dual. doh!. So I powered down and did
this and upon rebooting got a blank screen. So I cleared the cmos and
started over.

Now my screen shows I have an athlon xp 1900+ and I get a message that there
was a cmos checksum error defaults loaded. How can I get my system to
recognize the processor correctly (correct type and speed).

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave C.

 

[philo]

Hi all..building a new machine here this morning. Using an athlon xp 2500+
and a msi k7n2 mobo. Pretty basic...running a basic post and everything was
fine. processor and ram were identified correctly. However I inserted the
ram in dimm slot 1 and 2. This gave me single channel instead of dual. I
needed to put it in slot 1 and 3 for dual. doh!. So I powered down and did
this and upon rebooting got a blank screen. So I cleared the cmos and
started over.

Now my screen shows I have an athlon xp 1900+ and I get a message that there
was a cmos checksum error defaults loaded. How can I get my system to
recognize the processor correctly (correct type and speed).

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave C.

There should be a bios setting to raise your bus frequency...
since you reset the bios I'm sure everything was set to minimum default.

 

[kony]

Hi all..building a new machine here this morning. Using an athlon xp 2500+
and a msi k7n2 mobo. Pretty basic...running a basic post and everything was
fine. processor and ram were identified correctly. However I inserted the
ram in dimm slot 1 and 2. This gave me single channel instead of dual. I
needed to put it in slot 1 and 3 for dual. doh!. So I powered down and did
this and upon rebooting got a blank screen. So I cleared the cmos and
started over.

Now my screen shows I have an athlon xp 1900+ and I get a message that there
was a cmos checksum error defaults loaded. How can I get my system to
recognize the processor correctly (correct type and speed).

Any help would be appreciated.

Dave C.

Enter BIOS setup, change the FSB from 100 to 166.

Apparently your board uses 100MHz FSB as the BIOS default, which is
very common... means any time you reset CMOS, you need change it back
to 166.


Dave

 

[David Ciemny]

thanks for the replies. Moved it to 166 and it solved the problem. Is there
anything else I should look for since defaults were loaded. Everything
appears to be ready to go. Want to make sure before I put it all together in
the case.

DC

 

[philo]

thanks for the replies. Moved it to 166 and it solved the problem. Is there
anything else I should look for since defaults were loaded. Everything
appears to be ready to go. Want to make sure before I put it all together in
the case.

Yes there is usually a setting for performance such as normal or optimal


....although the terminology can sometimes be a bit confusing...

 

[David Ciemny]

sticking with normal until system is burned in.

Thanks..

DC

 

[kony]

thanks for the replies. Moved it to 166 and it solved the problem. Is there
anything else I should look for since defaults were loaded. Everything
appears to be ready to go. Want to make sure before I put it all together in
the case.

In theory, when you received the board it should've been set to those
defaults, so anything you had changed previously, needs changed again.


Dave