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bloodybunny · January 6th, 2005, 01:54 PM

well, before i'll go on, it's going to be a sorta long post..
so i appologize upfront..

i have this weird thing with the bios.. it will not save itself permenately ,
meaning..

every time i restart , and this is an issue for some reason , because the restart at windows and restart button , do not function for some reason..
meaning , my PC won't restart , only when i hit the power button till the PC shuts down completely , then i have to press it again , and then i have to hit the restart button several times , until my PC will actually start..
i dunno the cause of this..

but then another thing.. once i restart , i have to go into BiOS again .. and set the boot priority to my SATA drive , because the windows is on it..
i have two HDDs , one WD 120GB SATA and the other is same drive , only IDE.
now if i go into bios and set it to load from SATA , then save , then restart (again with power shut down and hit restart button several times till it starts the PC).
when i do that , it saves.. and then i can run windows..
but if i restart again.. i have to go through that process all over again cuz the BIOS sets it all back..

now.. i think i know the cause of it.. but i dunno what to do..
every time i start the PC.. it says "overclocking failed, hit F1 to enter setup (bios) , hit F2 to load defaults and continue.. . so i hit F2 ofcorse and then it works , until i restart the pC again , and then i have to go into the damn bios to set the boot device priority and HDD priority back to SATA / IDE and not IDE / SATA like it sets automaticly when i hit F2 so i could run windows. :\

i tried playing with the PC abit , and the BIOS , to remove that damn F1 and F2 thing.. but nothing seems to solve it..

the weird thing is that my PC is overclocked now and it works super great , i have P4 3.0 GHz , 1GB DDR 2 Dual Channel 400MHz , ATI x850 , and i have a water cooling system from thermaltake AQUARIUS III , so there is no way that the overclocking could damage my system cuz my mother board "ASUS P4800D" has options in the BIOS for overclocking..
i really tried everything in the BIOS to remove the damn F1 and F2 loading thingie..

and i dunno why it wont restart normaly when i hit restart button or restart from windows..

maybe im doing something wrong.. i doubt that there is something wrong with my MAINBOARD.. but i supose that everything i've put into my box , is supported..

one more thing to mention , before i had the upgrade, i had 512MB DDR instead of 1GB , and i had just one SATA WD HDD 120GB drive , and i had radeon 9200 instead of my ATI X850.. back then the PC used to start normaly..
althou i tried to remove the DDR already back to the priveous 512MB , and it didn't solve it.. and i doubt it has to do anything with the graphics card and my second IDE HDD...

and i also tried to update the BIOS to it's latest version , no change , only more problems , causing my onboard network card not to function correctly so i had to rollback the BIOS to my priveous version..

maybe any of you have any idea how i might fix it , so that the PC will restart like it should be restarting , or atleast to make it stop loading the F1 F2 / overclocking failed " screen every time i restart cuz it causes to load defaults , so i have to set the HDD priority all over again every time i restart and it's REALLY annoying concidering that i have to power off and on like crazy every time before i get my windows started..

thank you for reading this long post.

January 6th, 2005, 01:54 PM	#4 (permalink)
bloodybunny Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 9	well, before i'll go on, it's going to be a sorta long post.. so i appologize upfront.. i have this weird thing with the bios.. it will not save itself permenately , meaning.. every time i restart , and this is an issue for some reason , because the restart at windows and restart button , do not function for some reason.. meaning , my PC won't restart , only when i hit the power button till the PC shuts down completely , then i have to press it again , and then i have to hit the restart button several times , until my PC will actually start.. i dunno the cause of this.. but then another thing.. once i restart , i have to go into BiOS again .. and set the boot priority to my SATA drive , because the windows is on it.. i have two HDDs , one WD 120GB SATA and the other is same drive , only IDE. now if i go into bios and set it to load from SATA , then save , then restart (again with power shut down and hit restart button several times till it starts the PC). when i do that , it saves.. and then i can run windows.. but if i restart again.. i have to go through that process all over again cuz the BIOS sets it all back.. now.. i think i know the cause of it.. but i dunno what to do.. every time i start the PC.. it says "overclocking failed, hit F1 to enter setup (bios) , hit F2 to load defaults and continue.. . so i hit F2 ofcorse and then it works , until i restart the pC again , and then i have to go into the damn bios to set the boot device priority and HDD priority back to SATA / IDE and not IDE / SATA like it sets automaticly when i hit F2 so i could run windows. :\ i tried playing with the PC abit , and the BIOS , to remove that damn F1 and F2 thing.. but nothing seems to solve it.. the weird thing is that my PC is overclocked now and it works super great , i have P4 3.0 GHz , 1GB DDR 2 Dual Channel 400MHz , ATI x850 , and i have a water cooling system from thermaltake AQUARIUS III , so there is no way that the overclocking could damage my system cuz my mother board "ASUS P4800D" has options in the BIOS for overclocking.. i really tried everything in the BIOS to remove the damn F1 and F2 loading thingie.. and i dunno why it wont restart normaly when i hit restart button or restart from windows.. maybe im doing something wrong.. i doubt that there is something wrong with my MAINBOARD.. but i supose that everything i've put into my box , is supported.. one more thing to mention , before i had the upgrade, i had 512MB DDR instead of 1GB , and i had just one SATA WD HDD 120GB drive , and i had radeon 9200 instead of my ATI X850.. back then the PC used to start normaly.. althou i tried to remove the DDR already back to the priveous 512MB , and it didn't solve it.. and i doubt it has to do anything with the graphics card and my second IDE HDD... and i also tried to update the BIOS to it's latest version , no change , only more problems , causing my onboard network card not to function correctly so i had to rollback the BIOS to my priveous version.. maybe any of you have any idea how i might fix it , so that the PC will restart like it should be restarting , or atleast to make it stop loading the F1 F2 / overclocking failed " screen every time i restart cuz it causes to load defaults , so i have to set the HDD priority all over again every time i restart and it's REALLY annoying concidering that i have to power off and on like crazy every time before i get my windows started.. thank you for reading this long post.