Here is a strange bug that I have recently been experiencing. I have a 939 3700+ in an Asus A8N-E motherboard. I just picked up a new cooler master case which has the power supply mounted on the bottom of the case. Sadly the P4 connector on my antec psu cannot reach the 4 pin slot on the motherboard. I had a random old adapter in which you plugged in a 20 pin atx bundle. On the output is a 20 pin atx connector and the 4 pin P4 connector. I plugged the P4 into the p4 slot, the 20 pin atx into the atx slot, and I used the 4 pins which are part of the psu's splitable atx bundle.
Okay, now the first thing I noticed was when I first turned on the computer in the new case the cmos had somehow reset. All of my bios settings were back to default, but I had not unplugged the onboard battery. I restored my old OC settings and everything was fine until the next morning. When I turned my computer on it hung on AMD Athlon 64 3700+. I couldn't enter the bios at all, it was frozen. After several restarts I gave up, turned off the power supply and disconnected the battery. After letting it sit a couple minutes and putting it back together I was able to get into the bios, bring everything back to normal and get into windows. I ran super pi for several hours, and played a couple games and it remained stable. That is until I restarted my computer. Once again it hung at the processor line.
An hour ago I ordered a P4 extender cable so I can use the true P4 connector which comes from the power supply. Do you think this will fix my issue, or is something else wrong. I just ordered a galaxy 8800gt the other day, so I hope I can get this resolved before it arrives.
I tried using the 12v line from the psu and I still get the same issue. No components have changed and yet now I am getting this problem. After I reset the cmos when it boots for the first time I get a cmos checksum error and I have to change some settings in the bios. Any ideas?
Okay, now the first thing I noticed was when I first turned on the computer in the new case the cmos had somehow reset. All of my bios settings were back to default, but I had not unplugged the onboard battery. I restored my old OC settings and everything was fine until the next morning. When I turned my computer on it hung on AMD Athlon 64 3700+. I couldn't enter the bios at all, it was frozen. After several restarts I gave up, turned off the power supply and disconnected the battery. After letting it sit a couple minutes and putting it back together I was able to get into the bios, bring everything back to normal and get into windows. I ran super pi for several hours, and played a couple games and it remained stable. That is until I restarted my computer. Once again it hung at the processor line.
An hour ago I ordered a P4 extender cable so I can use the true P4 connector which comes from the power supply. Do you think this will fix my issue, or is something else wrong. I just ordered a galaxy 8800gt the other day, so I hope I can get this resolved before it arrives.
I tried using the 12v line from the psu and I still get the same issue. No components have changed and yet now I am getting this problem. After I reset the cmos when it boots for the first time I get a cmos checksum error and I have to change some settings in the bios. Any ideas?