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Hi

I re-started my pc last night and when it booted up it gave an error "WARNING OVERCLOCK FAIL" or something along those lines,

I never overclock anything, i'm too much of a newbie to even try that stuff .... so whats going on ?

i also noticed that my cpu temp is very high around 60c ... maybe thats the cause ?

my specs are:

geforce 9500gt 512mb graphics card (stock didn't mess with any settings)
cpu is Q9820 quad
ram is 2.5gb
psu 450w

i have about 4 hdd connected at any given time.

oh i can still start up as normal because it prompts me to enter F2 to continue with current values etc ...

didn't install anything new but have been getting some pesky viruses lately but those seem to mess with my network connection only, i've ran a boot scan and got rid of those and ran maleware bytes to make sure that they were gone ...

edit: i have installed another xp OS on a different hdd and get the same error when booting up so don't think it's to do with any viruses ... it was a clean install on a fresh hdd
 
Virus may have corrupted your BIOS or BIOS settings. Try reflashing it with latest version for your motherboard.
 
Make sure all your components are seated properly. unplug & reseat them.

60 is highish but should not cause harm. you could add cooling to solve that problem. Besides as you turn your pc on it's not on that temp yet so if it was temp that was a problem then it should only shut down after a few minutes.
 
kayvee said:
Virus may have corrupted your BIOS or BIOS settings. Try reflashing it with latest version for your motherboard.
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thanks. any idea how i do that ? can i just re-install the drivers for the cpu will that work ?
 
Reset the bios, or load defaults. Start up your machine and keep pressing the delete key. When the bios screen pops up load defaults, save, and exit. Or find the little battery on the motherboard, switch off the machine and pull the battery out. Wait 30 seconds, put it back in and off you go.
 
Archer said:
Reset the bios, or load defaults. Start up your machine and keep pressing the delete key. When the bios screen pops up load defaults, save, and exit. Or find the little battery on the motherboard, switch off the machine and pull the battery out. Wait 30 seconds, put it back in and off you go.
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thank you will do that
 
Hehe, you don't get a Q9820 quad core cpu. ;)

Anywho, I have had this a couple of times on asus mobos, just go into the bios and reset to default settings, as suggested ^.
 
ryu said:
my specs are:

geforce 9500gt 512mb graphics card (stock didn't mess with any settings)
cpu is Q9820 quad
ram is 2.5gb
psu 450w

i have about 4 hdd connected at any given time.
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2.5GB of RAM is that one chip :wtf:

now that I read it again......
 
ChilliGirl said:
2.5GB of RAM is that one chip :wtf:

now that I read it again......
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lol no my bad it's 1*2gb and 1*512mb so 2.5gb :D

i think i have the cpu wrong but it's a intel quad 9280 or 9820 something like that :)
 
ryu said:
lol no my bad it's 1*2gb and 1*512mb so 2.5gb :D

i think i have the cpu wrong but it's a intel quad 9280 or 9820 something like that :)
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I'm also noob so I might be wrong. But from what I understand you can't put 2 different sizes of ram into the same machine. So you can only have 2 * 2gb or 2 * 512mb.
 
shaunvw said:
I'm also noob so I might be wrong. But from what I understand you can't put 2 different sizes of ram into the same machine. So you can only have 2 * 2gb or 2 * 512mb.
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Only if you want them to run in dual channel, otherwise, you can run what you want.

ryu said:
should be... will try it tonight thanks
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Kwel, let us know.
 
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