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Sometimes when powering up the computer, it derails into the BIOS setup. There
is sometimes nothing else wrong; sometimes it has reset the CPU speed to a very
low value - and sometimes it suddenly demands a password, which makes it
necessary to clear the CMOS RAM.
The other day this happened: instead of proper booting it went into the BIOS
setup, told me that I had changed CPU - and was set to a very low speed.
Attempts to set the right speed did not work since the keyboard was dead. The
whole booting sequence seemed out of kilter, timingwise, and I kept getting to
the SCSI device detection screen. When I finally succeeded to re-enter the BIOS
(with keyboard usable!) it demanded a password. No software outside the BIOS of
the A7V600 (and Advansys SCSI board) had been exected..
Once the non-BIOS boot sequence starts, there are no more problems. memtest86
has run for 48 hours without detecting any errors.
I have a A7V600 with 512MB of Kingston RAM, with Athlon XP2500+, with PS2
keyboard.
The password stuff has also happened with a A7V8X-X in another computer, and I
have read in this group of it happening to more people.
So, is this type of problems common an ASUS motherboards? Is there a known
cure? Or should people with AMD processors choose another brand?
PS The problems occurs in 'clusters' with long time between clusters. I have
upgrade to the latest BIOS - just in case.
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is sometimes nothing else wrong; sometimes it has reset the CPU speed to a very
low value - and sometimes it suddenly demands a password, which makes it
necessary to clear the CMOS RAM.
The other day this happened: instead of proper booting it went into the BIOS
setup, told me that I had changed CPU - and was set to a very low speed.
Attempts to set the right speed did not work since the keyboard was dead. The
whole booting sequence seemed out of kilter, timingwise, and I kept getting to
the SCSI device detection screen. When I finally succeeded to re-enter the BIOS
(with keyboard usable!) it demanded a password. No software outside the BIOS of
the A7V600 (and Advansys SCSI board) had been exected..
Once the non-BIOS boot sequence starts, there are no more problems. memtest86
has run for 48 hours without detecting any errors.
I have a A7V600 with 512MB of Kingston RAM, with Athlon XP2500+, with PS2
keyboard.
The password stuff has also happened with a A7V8X-X in another computer, and I
have read in this group of it happening to more people.
So, is this type of problems common an ASUS motherboards? Is there a known
cure? Or should people with AMD processors choose another brand?
PS The problems occurs in 'clusters' with long time between clusters. I have
upgrade to the latest BIOS - just in case.
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