New Computer

[Guest]

This is a new machine. Intel 2.8 Celeron D. Asus P5S800 mainboard. XP Home.
When the machine starts it stops at a black screen and says "Intel CPU uCode
loading error. Press F1 to resume". I press F1 and everything is fine. What
is a uCode error and how do I fix it? Also it is a 775 pin Celeron.

 

[Gary]

Did you just load Windows?
Or has it been running for a while and just started giving you this message?

 

[Malke]

This is a new machine. Intel 2.8 Celeron D. Asus P5S800 mainboard. XP
Home. When the machine starts it stops at a black screen and says
"Intel CPU uCode loading error. Press F1 to resume". I press F1 and
everything is fine. What is a uCode error and how do I fix it? Also it
is a 775 pin Celeron.

Since this is a new machine and you presumably aren't overclocking it,
take it back immediately. If you *are* overclocking the processor, you
did it wrong. Set it back to default and try again.

You could mess around with flashing your BIOS, but since you say this is
a new machine you shouldn't be getting this error. This is a hardware
error and has nothing to do with Windows.

Malke

 

[Malke]

This is a new machine. Intel 2.8 Celeron D. Asus P5S800 mainboard. XP
Home. When the machine starts it stops at a black screen and says
"Intel CPU uCode loading error. Press F1 to resume". I press F1 and
everything is fine. What is a uCode error and how do I fix it? Also it
is a 775 pin Celeron.

Please don't multipost. See this link for an explanation of why
multiposting will get you *less* help:

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm

I answered you in another newsgroup in more detail. Short answer: take
the machine back if it is new and you didn't overclock it. If you
overclocked it, you did it wrong.

Malke

 

[Bob Knowlden]

You'd get better help if you provided more information.

A "uCode" error is a microcode error. I've never seen one, but it could be
caused by using a CPU that is too new to be supported by your mainboard's
BIOS.

The CPU compatibility list for the P5S800-VM is:

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?model=P5S800-VM&SLanguage=en-us

(There's no board listed without the -VM suffix.) There are three 2.8 GHz
Celeron D CPUs listed, and the latest revision requires BIOS 1016.005 or
later. The latest BIOS rev. is 1020.

If your system was assembled by someone else, by all means have them fix it.
You shouldn't need to perform a BIOS flash, unless you built the system and
mismatched the CPU and BIOS revision.


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