Asus P4B266 goes into bios safe mode after rebooting

[igorek]

My computer
Asus P4B266
Pentium4 1.6A
Kingston 256 DDR
Windows XP

Sometimes when I turn my computer off or put it to hibernate and then turnt it on, it automatically goes to bios and it says that computer works in safe mode and that cpu settings are incorrect. I havent even overclocked it.
Any ideas why it does that?
I would appreciate any help.

 

[Buz2b]

After carefully checking your BIOS settings and your Power Management settings, if the problem still exists then you might look at replacing the CMOS battery. Without more info, that is my best guess.

 

[jiffylube1024]

<< My computer
Asus P4B266
Pentium4 1.6A
Kingston 256 DDR
Windows XP

Sometimes when I turn my computer off or put it to hibernate and then turnt it on, it automatically goes to bios and it says that computer works in safe mode and that cpu settings are incorrect. I havent even overclocked it.
Any ideas why it does that?
I would appreciate any help.

>>



First of all, what the heck are you doing running that chip not overclocked!? You should be able to get 2.133 GHz out of that chip easy (133 MHz FSB) 🙂.

That aside, sometimes ASUS boards go into the BIOS after the machine was shut down/rebooted when the CPU gets too hot. Have you checked your CPU temperatures using the program MBM5 or even Asus Probe? Does your machine run stably otherwise?

Sometimes my machine does the same (goes into the BIOS on powerup) for no good reason. Usually, unless you're having problems with your machine otherwise, it isn't really anything to worry about, and you can just exit the BIOS without problems. I've found this happens on an ASUS CUSL2, P4B266, A7V, A7V133, etc. As long as it's not happening to you too frequently (like every restart or anything crazy like that) then I wouldn't worry about it at all.