MrCoo

Hello Good Folks at DH,

I'm having a problem that just has me stumped, and I know that DriverHeaven could help me out like it always does. (Thanks everyone )

Here is what's going on:
Sometimes, when I turn my computer on you will hear the usual (PSU turning on, then all the fans, and the motherboard) then you'll hear the harddrives turning on, but then you won't hear a beep from the motherboard followed by getting an image on the monitor as it's supposed to. So what I usually would do is turn the computer off, then wait, then turn the computer on until you see a display from the monitor. (I know I should have looked into it earlier, but I just expected it to go away (lol))

So today, my brother was on the computer, and he said it froze on him, so he turned the computer off, and when he turned it on he said the screen was black (i.e. what was happenening above, I assume). Now, when I turn on my computer, the above will happen and no matter how many times you turn it on/off it just wont turn on! Finally, I tried it with another monitor, and by suprise it happened to turn on when I had switched it. (I know for sure it wasn't the monitor because I later switched it back with the other monitor).

But when the comptuer did turn on it automatically went to the BIOS, and give me an error message when in the sidebar:

During the last Boot-up your system hung for an improper CPU external speed setting. Your system is now working in safe mode (BUS: 1000MHz, DRAM: 100MHz), To optimize the system performance and reliability, make sure the CPU speed conforms to your CPU

Notice how it says CPU external speed setting, I've never touched any jumpers on my motherboard at all. I'm stumped!

Anyone have the slightest idea on what's going on and how to solve it? Preatty please!

Any help is much appreciated,
-Thanks

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Lchevy79

it sounds like my dads tower. it has the same problem ,it has to runn slower than specs. sounds like the cpu or mobo,

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MrCoo

Hello All,
Ok so, I re-installed Windows and now (so-far) I'm not getting any problems (thank god!).

What explanation I have: when you reinstall Windows, it updates the drivers for all your hardware, even your motherboard. I didn't know that.

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ChaosMinionX

Well to some extent it installs all hardware.... usually if you do any major changes to your system (change motherboard to a new chipset, change processors, anything the OS could consider major) I would recommend reinstalling anyway.

Some devices if not already available in the Windows driver catalog will just be left as a generic device, so you should verify all your hardware is installed properly and that you have the latest drivers for them.

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MrCoo

Yea, it didn't solve the problem totally. It helped it (I can restart without the same problem ocurring), but I get the problem when I start up from it being off all day.

Would you guys reccomend updating the BIOS? 'Cause I'm stumped again!

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