don't ask Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Emm - can I ask?When your BIOS suddenly mis-reports things that were OK a few days ago (like suddenly your CPU is not what it reported it was yesterday) - what causes that to happen? :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doug Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 New battery required? Suggest you post details of your hardware etc. and what used to and what now happens on switch-on. Then the clever lot will jump in. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 16, 2003 Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 Depending on how old the system is I would 1st check out the cmos battery I think :huh: , but I would doublecheck the clock in the taskbar 1st see if it is keeping correct time between boot ups.Doug types quicker than I :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't ask Posted July 16, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2003 PC bought in Oct 2002Keeps time no problemAthlon XP 1700256MB PC2100 DDRECS K7S5A Mobo64MB GeForce2 MX400 Gphx350W PSU40BG HDDFDDCD Rom56K modemmachine used as 'master' on home network of 3 machines (if I need DVD &etc I use one of the other ones).Looks pretty harmless to me - I look after it well enough! Don't know what upset it :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 HiThat seems to be a common problem with your Mother Board.I had one of them and it used to do that every month or so, so i changed it, still the same model and now it has no probs.All i used to do was enter the BIOS set up by pressing the Delete key on start up then navigate to the CPU set up section, one of the options there will probally say 100/100 you will have to change that to say 133/133 then your CPU will run at the correct speed.Good luckTony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LB Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 a wise person once said to me that no question is silly if it extends your knowledge....just a thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
don't ask Posted July 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 Tony - I'm very grateful for the explanatory info - machine is very happy now - Thank you. I'm delighted! :D Lived B........ - Thank you too - you have no idea how comforting your response was - I'm having a bad day (so I have been told by a couple of people now :unsure: ) Cheers !don't ask (hmmmmm - I seem to have chosen an appropriate name, but please don't ask!!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted July 17, 2003 Report Share Posted July 17, 2003 No Problem don't askGlad it is sortedTony :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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