Hi,
I believe I have a defective Asus P4S333 motherboard. The board came with BIOS 1003 and worked initially fine. It was necessary to update the BIOS to 1005 to fix some issues not corrected by 1003. After upgrading I received the following error message: "Hardware Monitor found an error. Enter power setup menu for details." This error is detailed on page 4-30 of the manual and states that you will receive it "if any of the monitored items (VCORE voltage, +3.3v voltage, +5v voltage, or +12v voltage) is out of range.
I am not an over clocker and all items were set to default. I went into the Hardware Monitor section of the BIOS and checked all the voltages and found them to be in line (not more than .14v off) and all colored blue instead of red indicating that they were out of range. I tried another power supply that came out of working system and a new Enermax power supply just to confirm that was not the problem, all did the same thing.
I flashed back to BIOS 1003 and the problem went away. I tried getting two other newer versions of the BIOS from people who had them in their machines and new they were OK, same problem. I tried manipulating some of the BIOS parameters still the same problem. I spoke with about 20 friends that use this board and none had encountered this problem.
I can adjust the "Halt On" command in the BIOS to "No Errors" and all works fine even with the newer BIOS. I, however, am afraid to leave it that way incase other issues should arise that I need to be warned about. I am not new to this, I have built about 10 computers, some with motherboards from different manufacturers. I believe I have tried everything that I can think of. What do you suggest?
I believe I have a defective Asus P4S333 motherboard. The board came with BIOS 1003 and worked initially fine. It was necessary to update the BIOS to 1005 to fix some issues not corrected by 1003. After upgrading I received the following error message: "Hardware Monitor found an error. Enter power setup menu for details." This error is detailed on page 4-30 of the manual and states that you will receive it "if any of the monitored items (VCORE voltage, +3.3v voltage, +5v voltage, or +12v voltage) is out of range.
I am not an over clocker and all items were set to default. I went into the Hardware Monitor section of the BIOS and checked all the voltages and found them to be in line (not more than .14v off) and all colored blue instead of red indicating that they were out of range. I tried another power supply that came out of working system and a new Enermax power supply just to confirm that was not the problem, all did the same thing.
I flashed back to BIOS 1003 and the problem went away. I tried getting two other newer versions of the BIOS from people who had them in their machines and new they were OK, same problem. I tried manipulating some of the BIOS parameters still the same problem. I spoke with about 20 friends that use this board and none had encountered this problem.
I can adjust the "Halt On" command in the BIOS to "No Errors" and all works fine even with the newer BIOS. I, however, am afraid to leave it that way incase other issues should arise that I need to be warned about. I am not new to this, I have built about 10 computers, some with motherboards from different manufacturers. I believe I have tried everything that I can think of. What do you suggest?
