Problem, possibly memory related?

**clocker** · 07-09-2005, 06:26 PM

Just out of left field...
Try using a different CD-ROM to load Windows.

**Snee** · 07-09-2005, 06:30 PM

How long do you think we can keep him going?

EDit:
Seriously though, I hope we covered everything, and it'd be brilliant if one of these last suggestions worked and you didn't have to send it back, arky.

**lynx** · 07-09-2005, 07:02 PM

Feck, the bios page tells you that you need to upgrade to support the Sempron chip. Flashing the bios will NOT void your warranty, in fact you should be complaining that it has come with an out of date bios.

However, from my own personal experience, if someone mentions the word PCChips, run like hell.

**Snee** · 07-09-2005, 07:14 PM

That's it, I'm out of hardwareworld for good, before something catches on fire

**Mr. Mulder** · 07-09-2005, 07:24 PM

there's a lot of different suggestions now

I've tried two different CD's, one which has 8 different versions of Windows on it

I can't put any other sticks in other than the two ebuyer sticks as I don't have any others, though I've tried each stick on it' own in different slots

What Lynx said sounds spot on, but if i try to flash the BIOS and it fecks up, then it can't be sent back ...but, if they send another board with the same out-of-date bios, then it would have been a waste of time?

**Chewie** · 07-09-2005, 07:52 PM

My advice:
Flash the BIOS.
If you have trouble with returning the board, refer them to the PCChips site and their page stating the BIOS must be flashed to recognise the Sempron.
If ebuyer sold you the CPU, board and RAM, they're hardly in a position to deny warranty when you were following manufacturer's directions in order to get them to work together.

**clocker** · 07-09-2005, 10:10 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

I've tried two different CD's, one which has 8 different versions of Windows on it

I meant the CD reader itself...you know, the thing with the tray that comes out?
If the drive is bad it can throw errors when loading the files.

We've never had to flash a board's BIOS to get a Sempron to load Windows.

**Snee** · 07-09-2005, 10:25 PM

Originally Posted by clocker

Originally Posted by Mr. Mulder

I've tried two different CD's, one which has 8 different versions of Windows on it

I meant the CD reader itself...you know, the thing with the tray that comes out?
If the drive is bad it can throw errors when loading the files.

We've never had to flash a board's BIOS to get a Sempron to load Windows.

After lynx posted about it, I remembered having seen a couple of blokes posting about allegedly trying to install semprons on older socket A mobos and failing until they'd flashed bios.

Mostly sempron support with a new bios just means that it doesn't say you have an unknown processor during post, I think.

But I googled around and found a bunch of fairly recent mobos that supposedly can't work with a sempron, at least not without a new bios.

And Arky did say it reported his cpu speed wrong.

I stared myself blind at the "battery low"-thing and those error messages (which I'd have thought would have been different if it had to do with the processor, btw), didn't even consider that it might be a cpu compability-thing.

Like I said, I think I'll be staying out of hardware-world so I don't jinx anyone else's efforts to fix something.