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post #1 of 7
1/30/05 at 12:08am
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I am bassicly rebuilding my old computer. It is a BE6 mobo and celron cpu. I have the hard drive set to master on it's own ribbon cable in the right place and my cd-reader/writer in the right slot on it's own ribbon cable. When i boot up it keep saying "CPU is unworkable-check cpu softmenu". So I did what it said and all the softmenu cotained was the the cpu speed and voltage. Everytime it boots up i get that message and everytime i go to softmenu it all says the cpu speed it 200 w.e. It always resets it's self to that speed NO MATTER WHAT! I don't know what might be causing this but i thought someone might here would. And if it matters my har ddrive is 200GB maxtor and my mobo is BE6. It is not BE6 2 or anything. HELP!
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post #2 of 7
1/30/05 at 12:17am
Maybe the CMOS battery is dead, or not fitted correctly. Do any of your bios settings save?
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post #3 of 7
1/30/05 at 12:25am
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Yes, the rest save, just not softmenu.
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post #4 of 7
1/30/05 at 2:38am
Can you set it to auto. Couple of questions. Not being mean just standard troubleshooting items. What are the full specs? CPU, RAM, MOBO etc. Did it ever work? Is that the same hardware config? Did you change any jumpers on the board? What was the last thing you did before it started acting goofy? Again no disrespect meant just trying to get all the info.
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post #5 of 7
1/30/05 at 2:50am
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My mobo is Abit BE6. My CPU is Celeron somthing. I forget the ram(Old though) The hardware config is different becaue of the new hdd and i remoed a floppy and regulard cd-om s installation would be easier I didn't changeay jumpers. The last ting i dd was have it rnning and then HDD crashed. I have built y own cmpuer but i believe the BIOS may beoutdated since it isn't finding things and stuff. I have no way of getting a BIOS upate thogh since it isn't running.
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post #6 of 7
1/30/05 at 10:23am
Though im not familiar with the HDD specifications, i beleive that it dosnt support the current generation of IDE HDDs.

Here's what i found on Tech Zone:

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The BE6 includes ATA/66, which the BX chipset was not designed to support. Although the BX chipset was designed to be compatible with this specification, it is only capable of running at a maximum of 33 Mbytes/sec, thus offering no advantage over UDMA/33.
Also, Im not exactly sure of what u mean by the CPU speed being set to 200 as you mean being set to 200MHz, or you mean that the front side bus is being set to 200MHz which is virtually impossible to achieve for a Celeron of that generation since they only run on a bus speed of 66MHz.
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post #7 of 7
1/30/05 at 1:46pm
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Well, i think the motherboard not supporting it could be it but the 200 is like 200(something). It is what you change to OC. But could it also be that the BIOS is outdated?
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