HELP!!

Cerb

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OK, my Duron 800 ran fine at 1050Mhz for about 12hrs, running Prime95 and Winamp the whole time, with me playing some Quake3 in the process.

I try 1100Mhz...comes up, but the bottom half of the Energy Star logo is messed up. It won't let me in the bios. I restart (holding power switch for 4secs), and it comes up with:

BIOS ROM checksum error

It beeps constantly.

Help!:|
 

AC

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u can try resetting the cmos settings with the jumper and clock it back down, but i think it's more likely that the bios got fried :(

u'll need to order a replacement, but if your motherboard is still under warranty (just don't tell 'em u overclocked it), u might be able to get an RMA
 

Cerb

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Thank you! In my post-non-boot frustration, I completely forgot it had a jumper at all :)

It is now booting (at 1050 ;) )

Though I think now I will try 1100 again to see if it will repeat itself :eek: (all in the interest of, uh...er...science, yeah, that).