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(plz forgive the lateness of my reply)
Alright, after a trip to PCWorld (and McDonalds :shifty: ) I've gotten back, put in the new battery and have gotten the same fecking messages :frusty: Also just noticed that it says there's an Athlon 900MHz in, instead of the 2.2 Sempron I put in :blink:
it's the BIOS, right? :dry:
Something dodgy with your bios/cmos, prolly, yeah.
Where'd you get the mobo from?
ebuyer :ph34r:Quote:
Originally Posted by SnnY
I'm looking at the BIOS page for teh mobo and it's got options for USA, China and Taiwan - Can't tell if they're for the actual BIOS or just read me's ect? Don't want to get the wrong one and feck with the voltage settings etc :ermm:
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Don't play around with flashing your bios, if the chip is borked it won't help.
You still have warranty left, right?
(You might want to make sure they can't see you have swapped batteries, if you return it, btw)
So you're saying just return the mether fecker and be done with it? :ermm:
Now you mention it, it does sound like the safer option. I'd hate to flash it and find that the chip is broken, and learn that we couldn't return it due to the flashing breaching the warranty? :unsure:
but they'll be hell to pay in the mean time :cry:
Yep, 'fraid so.
No point in losing the warranty if you flash it and it doesn't work, as you say.
Blame me for it, I live half a continent away, so she can't hurt me.
She begs to differ :fear: :lol:
I'll do that then, expect an update sometime in August :ermm:
thnx for the help, everyone :01:
Do they have a hotline or something you can call before you send it back?
I reckon they'll say what I said, but that way you can point to what they told you if they give you trouble further along the road with the rma.
Good thinking Batman, I'll take a look and maybe phone them :01:
Returned a case to them not long ago and everything seemed to go smoothly, just took ages for the actual RMA number, so I'm optimistic :ermm:
Right O.
And just to cover all bases, in case I was off on the ram issue, try a stick of ram you know works, in both slots. Or try the same ebuyer stick you used when you tested this mobo with another mobo. (In fact, do both if possible.)
And have a look at the BIOS chip, so you know you haven't unseated it somehow.
That way you can be absolutely certain you've tried everything.
(The initial "battery low"-warning definitely points in another direction, but just in case.)