PocketMatrix

yep, more problems with my PC...

ok, 2 days ago was raining in my city, then it started to look more like a storm (no lightings, but too much air currents). I was working with my PC and suddenly the electricity goes down in a part of my city.
After 5 minutes, electricity came back and i turned the PC again, nothing strange until here, i could be working with it normally.
Then after 30 minutes of use, a blue screen appears with the text "CPU hardware frecuency trap has been changed, please set host and DRAM clock in setup", and i was like "wtf?"
Then my computer restarted and started windowsxp normally, but since then, i have been experiencing some constant lockups almost every hour, and it is very annoying.
A friend told me that because of the other day that the electricity went down and my PC didnt turn off in the right way, the clock frecuency in my BIOS setup could have been altered.

I have Award BIOS, and today i was checking the DRAM and clock frecuency setup in BIOS and it was controlled by "hardware", is it right? or must i set it to "software"?

thanks

Didt you try to reset the bios?

Its recommended to do all of that when you set the jumper anyway. If the option in the BIOS doesn't work, just reset everything via the jumper. It should work.

Buy a new motherboard. :p

Yeah, one time my mobo crapped out on me, and I didn't know about the jumpers and shit. Then when I bought a new one, I had the same problem, and I fixed it by resetting the jumpers about a million times.