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"Paul" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
news:cadcu2$h7i$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> Umm the P4P800 is an 800 FSB board TK
>
> It may have been the previous CPU u had installed
> was a 533 CPU? And the newer one was a 800 one?
>
> That maybe why, it went from 533 to 800? That'll
> be the CPU that changed the FSB? Not the memory?
>
Yes exactly, I was concerned that the memory could run fine at 533 but
have problems at 800 but that was not the case. The system is fine now , not
1 BSOD
yet running Bios 1017 Beta.
>
> "tk" <tk@home.com> wrote in message news:40c9b9b0$1_1@127.0.0.1...
>> Same problems occured on a friends machine I setup.
>> Random BSOD's and program glitches. I thought it
>> might have been the raid setup, are you using raid Paul?
>> The machine I had trouble with started having trouble
>> when I upgraded him from 2.8 P4 to a 3.0 HT P4.
>> They sent the wrong chip so now I put in the correct one he ordered
>> a P4 Prescott 3.0 GHz. I am still concerned about his memory
>> because the FSB went from 533-800.
>>
>> Last thing I did was update to 1017beta bios couldn't go back to 1015
>> cause 1016 is required for Prescott according to Asus. No BSOD's
>> for 2 days and it screams !!! If BSOD's come back I'll float him
>> 512 of my Corsair DDR400 and see if that resolves it.
>>
>> "Tim" <Tim@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
> news:cabs8k$elm$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> > Pail,
>> >
>> > Did you load setup defaults after you flashed the bios then re-set the
>> > specific settings you need for your system to run?
>> > If you didn't then there may be nothing wrong at all with the bios.
>> >
>> > Yesterday for example, I had a printer refuse to work (I hadn't used it
>> > for months) and found that in the bios it had become set to EPP mode
> only.
>> > Not surprisingly this screwed up the driver operation. I have no idea
> how
>> > this happened as I always load defaults and never touch the printer
>> > settings.
>> >
>> > If you get a BSOD, then - even in what seems like such a clear cut
>> > situation - I would look into the BSOD error, driver mentioned if any
> (no
>> > doubt the HP driver) and follow through on this, because you did have a
>> > solid reason for upgrading the BIOS didn't you?
>> >
>> > It *may* be exactly as you say but... it may not.
>> >
>> > - Tim
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Paul" <noone@home.com> wrote in message
>> > news:cabnkv$b66$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>> >> Hey all, if you have probs with this BIOS. revert
>> >> back to the old one (1015). There is definitely
>> >> something wrong with this 1016 BIOS. Well with XP
>> >> there is. I had constant crashing, BSOD's/random
>> >> reboots (Even when I unticked Automatically reboot it
>> >> rebooted constantly/often).
>> >>
>> >> I also use Publisher 2002, and an HP Photosmart 145 printer. Before,
> when
>> >> I
>> >> had 1016 of this BIOS,
>> >> and this printer was set as default, Publisher
>> >> would crash. You COULDN'T do anything in it.
>> >>
>> >> Now that I have gone back to 1015, Publisher works
>> >> with this printer as default. NO probs at all.
>> >>
>> >> It stuffs up your system fullstop!
>> >>
>> >> Wait for 1017 if it ever comes out.
>> >>
>> >>
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