Decompressing BIOS image to RAM for fast booting?? WTF

6TNINE

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Oct 6, 2000
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I always could o/c my axia t-bird real well. I recently installed a new water cooling system over the past few weeks. Well at one point when i was installing the waterblock on the t-bird. I decided to try out and see how quiet it would be w/out all the noisy fans. i turned the thing on, and viola---smoke. i shut it off as fast as possible, fearing the worst. Well i hooked it up and the bird runs fine. Could that have caused the t-bird to stop overclocking? other than that everythign is the same. help me please. i checked the L1 bridges and went over them again w/ pencil (even though they already have conductive paint on them), so thats not it.

Anytime I put the multiplier above default, i get an error that is shown on the D-LED of the motherboard that says this

" Decompressing BIOS image to RAM for fast booting"

any suggestions? i was thinking the ram might have gone bad. but i dunno??? help please

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Peter

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Oct 15, 1999
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Well if it hangs during (or right after) decompression of the main BIOS POST procedure to RAM, then this means that the CPU writes incorrect data into RAM. In other words, your overclock failed - either the CPU computes nonsense, or your RAM doesn't keep up.

regards, Peter