Ok firstly Hello, secondly, i'm a complete newbie when it comes to hardware bios, motherboard stuff so go easy on me on this one....
The problem is I keep getting a message on boot up that says 'CPU is new or unworkable'. This occured after I had taken the heatsink off for cleaning (was caked in dust and i would get temperature alarms when playing games or other processor intensive things like rendering)
Problem is the processor came off with the heatsink due to thermal paste practically welding the two together. So I heated it up with a hair dryer and got the cpu off and plugged it back in, along with now clean heatsink.
So I had a butchers about and a friend told me to reset the CMOS memory, so i did that by changing a yellow plug thing to pins 2 & 3 instead of 1 & 2 on the cmos bit on my motherboard.
It said a message on boot up about resetting to default cmos settings and hurrah, all booted up fine. I tested with a restart to be greeted with the 'cpu new or unworkable' message. Is this because i need to save those default settings? I tried going into set up and selecting Exit and save but on reboot it produced the same unworkable message again. I'm at the end of my tether and pushed F1 to continue anyway, and here I am seemingly all ok.
Is it the cpu's knackered and i'm playing some dodgy risk here by carrying on? Or has my motherboard been fooled somehow into thinking i have a new CPU and i need to save the cmos settings i reset it to? (when it worked) I have no clue about BIOS stuff so any help, opinions appreciated.
By the way motherboard is a A-Bit BE7.
Processor is a Intel P4 1.7 Gig.
(Heatsink is a 'sparkly clean, welder to teh cpu' brand)
Thanks in advance folks.
The problem is I keep getting a message on boot up that says 'CPU is new or unworkable'. This occured after I had taken the heatsink off for cleaning (was caked in dust and i would get temperature alarms when playing games or other processor intensive things like rendering)
Problem is the processor came off with the heatsink due to thermal paste practically welding the two together. So I heated it up with a hair dryer and got the cpu off and plugged it back in, along with now clean heatsink.
So I had a butchers about and a friend told me to reset the CMOS memory, so i did that by changing a yellow plug thing to pins 2 & 3 instead of 1 & 2 on the cmos bit on my motherboard.
It said a message on boot up about resetting to default cmos settings and hurrah, all booted up fine. I tested with a restart to be greeted with the 'cpu new or unworkable' message. Is this because i need to save those default settings? I tried going into set up and selecting Exit and save but on reboot it produced the same unworkable message again. I'm at the end of my tether and pushed F1 to continue anyway, and here I am seemingly all ok.
Is it the cpu's knackered and i'm playing some dodgy risk here by carrying on? Or has my motherboard been fooled somehow into thinking i have a new CPU and i need to save the cmos settings i reset it to? (when it worked) I have no clue about BIOS stuff so any help, opinions appreciated.
By the way motherboard is a A-Bit BE7.
Processor is a Intel P4 1.7 Gig.
(Heatsink is a 'sparkly clean, welder to teh cpu' brand)
Thanks in advance folks.
