New CPU installed.

[Tor Tverre]

Sorry if I bother you with an obvious question, but my head is out of
function with a terrible summer cold.

I just assembled a new computer using a P4C800 Dlx Motherboard, an Intel 3.0
processor and 2x512 Corsair 3200 memory.
All bios settings (eccept boot etc) are default. Everytime I boot I get the
following:

"New CPU installed. Please enter Setup to configure your system. Press
F1 to load Setup, Press F2 to load default values and continue."

Pressing F2 the computer boots as normal and everything is operational. I
think it runs at half speed though. In AIDA32 the two processors are
reported to operate at 1500 GHz each, and the CPU temp is 37 Cgr. at full
load. (In my P4GX8 computer AIDA32 reports both processors running at 3.066
like they should.)

There is obviously something not correctly set in the BIOS. I am not too
keen on overklocking, just want to have the computer running at normal speed
and recognizing the CPU.

I remember this topic being discussed here once before, but I cannot find
it.
And another thing. Avoid summer colds, they are terrible.


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Regards
Tor Tverre
Norway

 

[Tor Tverre]

have you checked the firmware revision of the bios?

The board came with the 104 BIOS. I upgraded to to 108, no change. Is the
FSB supposed to run at 400 or 800? ADA32 repports the FSB at effectively 400
MHz with the real clock set at 100.

TT, Norway

 

[Tor Tverre]

Now i really have trouble. An agressive femaile voice tells me, 1. I have no
CPU installed, 2. CPU failed due to overclocking.
I cannot make the recover BIOS from the support CD work

TT Norway

 

[rstlne]

Reset the bios

Now i really have trouble. An agressive femaile voice tells me, 1. I have no
CPU installed, 2. CPU failed due to overclocking.
I cannot make the recover BIOS from the support CD work

TT Norway


200Mhz operational.

 

[Muttley]

Use the Clear CMOS jumper on the board (CLRTC) to revert the BIOS to
defaults.
The manual should show how to do it.

John S.

 

[Tor Tverre]

OK, I am up and running again. My trouble is, when I go into the BIOS and
set the FSB to 200 and reboot, I get the same message, New CPU installed,
press F2 to load default. When I do this the computer boots normally, but
the FSB setting is back to 100. I need to have the MB recognize the CPU and
not have to select defaut settings to boot. I know a fellow a time back
solved the same problem, but I cannot find the news messages.

TT, Norway

What happened to the CPU parameter recall feature then?
TT

the two processors are reported to operate
at 1500 GHz each, and the CPU temp is 37 Cgr. at full load.
(In my P4GX8 computer AIDA32 reports both
processors running at 3.066 like they should.)

 

[Muttley]

What happens if you press F1 during boot-up to go into the BIOS.
Then load Setup Defaults from the Exit page, and then save the settings and
reboot?

The board may be reverting to the 100Mhz default at every boot-up due to the
correct settings never being saved in the BIOS.

John S.

 

[Tor Tverre]

The same thing happens. I load defaut settings, saves and exit, and on the
next boot it does the same again. I do not think the CMOS is at fault
though, because the changes i make are stored until the next boot.

TT. Norway

 

[Paul]

The same thing happens. I load defaut settings, saves and exit, and on the
next boot it does the same again. I do not think the CMOS is at fault
though, because the changes i make are stored until the next boot.

TT. Norway

There are two pins on the P4 called BSEL[1:0]. These are supposed to
communicate the default bus speed to the motherboard. Of the four
possible values, 100, 133, and 200 are defined for the P4, with the
fourth value being reserved. If there was something wrong with these
two signals, or some logic that Asus was using to condition these
signals, that might be the source of the confusion for the BIOS.
So, if you run out of other things to try, you could reseat the processor
in its socket, or check that something isn't shorting to the bottom
of the board.

Just a guess,
Paul

 

[Tor Tverre]

I had the exact same problem until I changed my power
supply to a bigger one.

Thank you for your advise. I am at present using the 360w power supply that
came with the case. May be it is to small, or of a sub quality. I will try
an Enemax 550 from one of my other computers when In feel up to it.

Tor T, Norway

 

[Tor Tverre]

The same thing happens. I load defaut settings, saves and exit, and on the
next boot it does the same again. I do not think the CMOS is at fault
though, because the changes i make are stored until the next boot.

TT. Norway

There are two pins on the P4 called BSEL[1:0]. These are supposed to
communicate the default bus speed to the motherboard. Of the four
possible values, 100, 133, and 200 are defined for the P4, with the
fourth value being reserved. If there was something wrong with these
two signals, or some logic that Asus was using to condition these
signals, that might be the source of the confusion for the BIOS.
So, if you run out of other things to try, you could reseat the processor
in its socket, or check that something isn't shorting to the bottom
of the board.

Thank you for responding Paul. This fault is really quite mysterious. I have
been adviced to try a new power supply. May be it will work.
I have assembled hundreds of computers in my time, but a thing like this I
have never seen.
I am afraid I am about to fall into a familiar trap. When I have aquired
all the parts necessary for finding this fault I will be close to having
parts for another PC. Being a fellow that hates to see usefull parts doing
nothing I will probably end up with yet another PC running at home. It will
probably end up doing full time Distributed Net primenumber search or
someting.
If nothing else works I will off cource take the M/B out of the case, reseat
the processor and see what happens.

Regards,
Tor T, Norway

 

[Y]

I'm having EXACTLY the same problem as you. We're going to try using better
RAM tomorrow. After that, a better power supply. I find the BIOS still needs
some updating to bring the board to a working level of stability.

Please post your continuing developments here; and I will do the same.

Thanks!

Steve

 

[Y]

Tor,

We've found the problem with our system: for some reason the P4C800-E can't
communicate with the Maxtor 740DX-6L drive that had previously been the
boot drive. We installed XP to another drive, and everything is working.

So not the same problem but an important discovery: one of the recent BIOSes
supposedly fixes an incompatability with another Maxtor drive. I suspect
this is part of the same problem. But we still experienced the problem after
flashing to 1008 and 1009. No doubt to be continued.

Steve

 

[John Wilson]

Had a similiar problem with a 2.8C that was reported as a 1.4 (two CPUs reported
thanks to Hyper-Threading...whatever that means)

anyway, there was an option in the BIOS, I think it was under AI overclocking. I
set it to automatic or default and rebooted the machine (saving of course) and
the new speed in Windows was 2.8 (two CPUs reported thanks to Hyper-Threading),
but it was much faster. It was actually running at 2.8GHz in contrast to the
previous speed of 1.4GHz.

john