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Little help with BIOS


Little help with BIOS

Postby SiGen » Jul 5, 2004 @ 6:29pm

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
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Postby Nilles » Jul 5, 2004 @ 9:42pm

Didt you try to reset the bios?
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Postby beanburito » Jul 5, 2004 @ 11:31pm

how do i put a pic here?
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Postby SiGen » Jul 6, 2004 @ 6:55am

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Postby chuck » Jul 6, 2004 @ 7:07am

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Postby Maf54 » Jul 6, 2004 @ 5:13pm

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Postby (TSC)Bender » Jul 6, 2004 @ 8:50pm

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.
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Postby Brig » Jul 6, 2004 @ 10:24pm

Buy a new motherboard. :p
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Postby David Horn » Jul 7, 2004 @ 12:10am

Crosswind technique: "Using your peripheral vision, react to body movements, gasps, groans, and shouts from the other side of the cockpit, and always remember that it's better to be lucky than good."
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Postby Brig » Jul 7, 2004 @ 12:12am

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Postby SiGen » Jul 7, 2004 @ 6:42am

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Postby Alexander » Jul 7, 2004 @ 9:22pm

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.
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