Fooked My Computer Up

V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
edited October 2004 in Off-Topic
<div class="IPBDescription">Well maybe a little bit</div> I updated the bios about an hour ago cos the bios thought my Athlon XP 2200 was a Athlon XP 1500.

Anyway somit's gone wrong now cos I can't play any games now it's as if I got really old crappy gfx card instead of my Geforce 4. Some of my games like elite Force 2 take ages to get through them intro movie where it chugs frame by frame where as Operation Flashpoint Resistance tries to be more helpful and gives me and error message which I'll add to this post.

As far as I can tell atm updating the bios must have set everything back to default so i prolly got to adjust something in the bios to sort it but it's really late and I'm tired so I'll fiddle with it tomorrow; since there's always some genius here I thought I would ask if anyone knew what I had to set in the bios b4 I hit the sack.

Motherboard is an ASUS A7V880
Old Bios version 1003
New Bios version 1007

GFX card: Geforce 4 Ti4200 AGP 8X
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    <span style='color:gray'><b>S</b></span>eems like you are trying to run to high of a refresh rate, or atleast that's what I got from the error message.
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  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    But I've always ran my display settings at 75hz on 1152x864 <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • marcemarce Join Date: 2004-08-24 Member: 30869Members
    edited October 2004
    i have the exact same card, running at 1280x1024 at 85 hertz...

    is it possible to roll back the bios and try again?

    EDIT: is there anything else you've done with it since the bios fixing?

    have you checked D3d, after all that's what the error says
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  • CForresterCForrester P0rk(h0p Join Date: 2002-10-05 Member: 1439Members, Constellation
    Here, try this:

    1) Uninstall your drivers and install <b><a href='http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/' target='_blank'>Driver Cleaner</a></b>
    2) Reboot in to safe mode, run Driver Cleaner and remove all traces of your drivers
    3) Reinstall the latest drivers

    I had a problem like this before and that fixed it, so it's worth a shot.
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  • funbagsfunbags Join Date: 2003-06-08 Member: 17099Members
    :\ Why would you want to update your BIOS? Unless your system is 5 years old..
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  • GrillkohleGrillkohle Join Date: 2003-12-23 Member: 24695Members, Constellation
    I know it's no help, but try to stick to the golden rule:

    Never touch a running system.
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  • DubersDubers Pet Shop Boy Edinburgh, UK Join Date: 2002-07-25 Member: 998Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-funbags+Oct 17 2004, 12:59 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (funbags @ Oct 17 2004, 12:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> :\ Why would you want to update your BIOS? Unless your system is 5 years old.. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Read what he posted agin and carefully this time.
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  • DarkATiDarkATi Revelation 22:17 Join Date: 2003-06-20 Member: 17532Members, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-CForrester+Oct 16 2004, 06:53 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CForrester @ Oct 16 2004, 06:53 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Here, try this:

    1) Uninstall your drivers and install <b><a href='http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/' target='_blank'>Driver Cleaner</a></b>
    2) Reboot in to safe mode, run Driver Cleaner and remove all traces of your drivers
    3) Reinstall the latest drivers

    I had a problem like this before and that fixed it, so it's worth a shot. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    True Story, Driver Clean resolves many issues. Use it.

    ~ DarkATi
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  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    Doh! tried that and it didn't work. Looks like I'll have to roll back to the original bios then <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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  • marcemarce Join Date: 2004-08-24 Member: 30869Members
    edited October 2004
    Besides the games not working, is the new bios running ok?

    EDIT: Note to self:- questions end with question marks?
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  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-marce+Oct 17 2004, 03:01 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (marce @ Oct 17 2004, 03:01 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> besides the games not working, is the new bios running ok? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    yeah fine, it recognises the cpu for what it is and I have no problems watching films on my pc through the media player or anything like that.
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  • ChronoChrono Local flyboy Join Date: 2003-08-05 Member: 18989Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-V-MAN+Oct 16 2004, 04:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (V-MAN @ Oct 16 2004, 04:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I updated the bios about an hour ago cos the bios thought my Athlon XP 2200 was a Athlon XP 1500. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    see there is your first problem that is not because of your bios version

    my athalon 2200 thought it was a 1500 too because of the motherboard all you gotta do is go into the bios settings and "overclock" it its not realy overclocking its more like setting it to its normal speed what your motherboard did is set it at the lowest speed it runs on so then it judged it speed and said its a 1500

    hope you understand my rambling
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  • marcemarce Join Date: 2004-08-24 Member: 30869Members
    since when do motherboards have this level of identity crisis?

    take your motherboard to a psychiatrist: it needs help.
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  • jumpingjodajumpingjoda Join Date: 2003-12-14 Member: 24367Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Don't panic, the update was succesfull.
    Now go into your bios and reset it to default configuration (sometimes called "manufacturer settings"), pbobalby you can also make a hardware reset of your setting but this should not be necessary.

    After you did that everything should be ok.
    If not, do the same driver cleaner story again.

    There seem to be a problem in adressing your card.

    Again, this should be easy to fix.
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  • V_MANV_MAN V-MAN Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6217Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Chrono+Oct 17 2004, 03:14 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Chrono @ Oct 17 2004, 03:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-V-MAN+Oct 16 2004, 04:22 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (V-MAN @ Oct 16 2004, 04:22 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I updated the bios about an hour ago cos the bios thought my Athlon XP 2200 was a Athlon XP 1500. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    see there is your first problem that is not because of your bios version

    my athalon 2200 thought it was a 1500 too because of the motherboard all you gotta do is go into the bios settings and "overclock" it its not realy overclocking its more like setting it to its normal speed what your motherboard did is set it at the lowest speed it runs on so then it judged it speed and said its a 1500

    hope you understand my rambling <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    no no no <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    I have set the cpu multipe and the cpu frequency correctly (13.5 x 133) to get the cpu to run at the correct speed of 1.8Ghz but the bios still thinks it's an Athlon XP 1500 lol

    I have since gone back to the original bios verson and thankfuly all is well again.

    I tried setting the bios back to defaults uoda but that's didn't fix the problem <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> What I might do is update the bios next time I do a format and see if that works.
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