Help! "Cpu is unworkable or has been changed."

[dreamachines]

Whenever I boot up, I get an error message that says: "Cpu is unworkable or has been changed. Please recheck - CPU SOFT MENU." What does this mean? Eerytime I change something in the bios I cannot restart be computer, I just get a black screen (no video signal.) But when I descahrge the cmos the compuer works fine but the error message shows up again. The cpu does not seem to be overheating too much. It stays around 22 C. I do not know if it is the mobo or the cpu itself. Please help.

 

[dreamachines]

Abit KT7-RAID
AMD 1.1GB Thunderbird
Matrox G400 MAX
IBM 30GB 7200RPM ATA100

 

[kengsim]

Disable Speed Error Hold.

 

[KouklatheCat]

Yep had the same problem on my P3 setup with BX6 board..... Disable Speed Error

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Like they said it's the speed hold error.

 

[golem]

Might have to go into you bios and reset you cpu settings too.

 

[Mem]

I had this happen once after a Bios flash I just went into Bios & did not change anything & just hit the save & exit key & everything booted up fine after that.

 

[kylebisme]

i saw this when i tried the pencil trick, got some locktite and it went away. guess im just no good with the pencil, meby you too?

 

[Liquidity]

No, this means the pencil DID work. There is a bios setting called "Speed Error Hold". Set it to "Disabled" and reboot with your overclocked settings. It shouldn't give you that error anymore after that.