[haza1981]

Hi,

I just bought an Asus P6T SE board from a guy off ebay and each time I reboot I get the error messager " you have instaled a new CPU press F1 to configure or F2 to load defaults"

This occours even if I configure the bios.

I have changed the battery and this has not helped.

Any ideas?

I have contacted ASUS and the motherboard has factory warrenty on it so I may be able to RMA it. I don;t want to send it back to the guy I bought it from as it only cost £205 for that 4gb ram and i7 920 processor. I'll probably have to return the lot to him

 

[p4p3r]

Hah, mobo suffers amnesia ... !

 

[dragosmp]

It may be that it isn't the battery that was empty, but the leads from the battery that power the BIOS could be faulty or the BIOS chip may have issues with the power stage... if factory RMA is an option I'd use that.

 

[That Guy]

reseat the processor.

 

[andrewmchugh]

I second dragosmp, also try installing a different version of the bios,

EDIT

But phone asus now, and see when your warranty expires, it could be soon as I think p6t was out in 08

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Originally Posted by haza1981 I have contacted ASUS and the motherboard has factory warrenty on it so I may be able to RMA it. I don;t want to send it back to the guy I bought it from as it only cost £205 for that 4gb ram and i7 920 processor. I'll probably have to return the lot to him

lol

 

[haza1981]

I think that it may be a bent pin issue on the socket. 1 actually looks like it has lost it's tip.

Would they chanrge for a bent pin RMA?

 

[Chobbit]

I had that problem on a P5n-sli and I just updated the Bios and it stopped displaying the New CPU message with the new bios.

 

[haza1981]

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Originally Posted by Chobbit I had that problem on a P5n-sli and I just updated the Bios and it stopped displaying the New CPU message with the new bios.

Going to give it a try and see if it works. I'm worried it is the pins though. Quite disapointed I was sold the board in this condition.

 

[Chobbit]

I hope the bios update does sort it out though

 

[haza1981]

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Originally Posted by Chobbit I hope the bios update does sort it out though

Just out of interest why did you cross flash the board to just a P6T?

 

[Chobbit]

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Originally Posted by haza1981;13095165
Just out of interest why did you cross flash the board to just a P6T?

because the standard P6T Bios allows SLi, were the P6T-SE doesn't.

Check out this post if your interested in doing it, it's a straight forward flash if you've flashed before.

 

[haza1981]

Thanks but not interested just yet. Besides the 2x 16 pce-e slots are too close together I would probably have to jam another card in. Bad design I think

 

[Chobbit]

yeah it's not brilliant.

Although if I have my two Gigabyte 460's (with the same windforce fans as your 560 I would imagine) in slots next too each other, as long as I put a small bit of plastic between the two cards to create a a small gap (about 6-8mm) and have a side fan blowing on them it's not terrible with the top card being about 12 degrees hotter.

Or if you have a long bridge you can plug the second card in the bottom pci-e 8x (white slot) and sacrifice about 2fps but have plenty of air too keep your temps down.

 

[Darren9]

I had this issue on my P6T-SE for a while, just occasionally though - not every boot, don't think it had any bent pins and reinstalling the CPU and Block seemed to cure it.

 

[haza1981]

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Originally Posted by Darren9;13095520
I had this issue on my P6T-SE for a while, just occasionally though - not every boot, don't think it had any bent pins and reinstalling the CPU and Block seemed to cure it.

I tried this several times. Gonna have a play tonight and see what I can figure out.

 

[haza1981]

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Originally Posted by Chobbit;13095471
yeah it's not brilliant.

Although if I have my two Gigabyte 460's (with the same windforce fans as your 560 I would imagine) in slots next too each other, as long as I put a small bit of plastic between the two cards to create a a small gap (about 6-8mm) and have a side fan blowing on them it's not terrible with the top card being about 12 degrees hotter.

Or if you have a long bridge you can plug the second card in the bottom pci-e 8x (white slot) and sacrifice about 2fps but have plenty of air too keep your temps down.

The white slot on mine is only x4 so i'm using it for Physx. Hopefully this wont slow stuff down.

Don't intend on going SLI justyet anyway. Had loads of issues with SLI in the past.

 

[Chobbit]

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Originally Posted by haza1981;13095562
The white slot on mine is only x4 so i'm using it for Physx. Hopefully this wont slow stuff down.

Don't intend on going SLI justyet anyway. Had loads of issues with SLI in the past.

Sorry meant x4 I only saw about 2-3 fps decrease when going from x16 / x16 to x16 / x4.

Good luck with getting it working!

 

[haza1981]

After much messing around I managed to get it to work without the error message. Then I realised it only showed 2gb of ram rather than 4gb. Again I thought it was to do with the pins. I changed the slots and after a few slot changes I got it to show 4. Strange thing is I had to use slot 4 and 6 which are not the ones said in the manual. But so far so good. Fully re imaged machine now. MAinly cause i'm still getting BAd Company 2 white screen errors.

 

[Darren9]

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Originally Posted by haza1981;13101846
After much messing around I managed to get it to work without the error message. Then I realised it only showed 2gb of ram rather than 4gb. Again I thought it was to do with the pins. I changed the slots and after a few slot changes I got it to show 4. Strange thing is I had to use slot 4 and 6 which are not the ones said in the manual. But so far so good. Fully re imaged machine now. MAinly cause i'm still getting BAd Company 2 white screen errors.

Your not trying to run the XMP profile are you? They don't work very well on P6T's either.

 

[Chobbit]

Congratulations on getting it working

(was it just a bios update that was needed?), yeah my memory when I only had 2 sticks had to be put in the following way too work:

XX XO XO

however with triple channel memory it works as it should:

XO XO XO