New Crisis! POST halt

timOleary · External Since: Jun 06, 2009 Posts: 5

AUSUS P5 WD2-E PREMIUM D805 WXPPROSP2

During POST, suddenly my system stops at the RAM test; than after a
long pause displays lots of info on my masters and slaves, the says at
the bottom:

"overclocking failed or overvoltage failed
please enter setup and re-configure your system
press F1 to run setup
press F2 to load defaults values and continue"

I pressed F2. and am able to use the PC and send this SOS
What does this mean and what should I do?

1PW · External Since: Aug 25, 2009 Posts: 24

timOleary wrote:
> AUSUS P5 WD2-E PREMIUM D805 WXPPROSP2
>
> During POST, suddenly my system stops at the RAM test; than after a
> long pause displays lots of info on my masters and slaves, the says at
> the bottom:
>
> "overclocking failed or overvoltage failed
> please enter setup and re-configure your system
> press F1 to run setup
> press F2 to load defaults values and continue"
>
> I pressed F2. and am able to use the PC and send this SOS
> What does this mean and what should I do?

Hello Tim:

If it doesn't repeat, then it was a transient occurrence.

If it does repeat and you have been altering BIOS values, you've gone
too far.

If it does repeat and you have not been altering BIOS values, then you
have a possible hardware trouble for which you have not given us
enough information from the failure message yet.

--
1PW

David B. · External Since: Aug 09, 2007 Posts: 45

Press F1, then do a save and exit.

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"timOleary" <timothy.w.oleary.DeleteThis@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5176a7ec-db6c-474b-adfc-726b404b5e80@l9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com...
> AUSUS P5 WD2-E PREMIUM D805 WXPPROSP2
>
> During POST, suddenly my system stops at the RAM test; than after a
> long pause displays lots of info on my masters and slaves, the says at
> the bottom:
>
> "overclocking failed or overvoltage failed
> please enter setup and re-configure your system
> press F1 to run setup
> press F2 to load defaults values and continue"
>
> I pressed F2. and am able to use the PC and send this SOS
> What does this mean and what should I do?

Don Phillipson · External Since: Jan 09, 2009 Posts: 37

> timOleary wrote:
> > AUSUS P5 WD2-E PREMIUM D805 WXPPROSP2
> >
> > During POST, suddenly my system stops at the RAM test; than after a
> > long pause displays lots of info on my masters and slaves, the says at
> > the bottom:
> >
> > "overclocking failed or overvoltage failed
> > please enter setup and re-configure your system
> > press F1 to run setup
> > press F2 to load defaults values and continue"
> >
> > I pressed F2. and am able to use the PC and send this SOS
> > What does this mean and what should I do?

"1PW" <1PW.DeleteThis@INVALID.com> wrote in message
news:h884v4$e36$1@news.eternal-september.org...

> If it doesn't repeat, then it was a transient occurrence.
>
> If it does repeat and you have been altering BIOS values, you've gone
> too far.
>
> If it does repeat and you have not been altering BIOS values, then you
> have a possible hardware trouble for which you have not given us
> enough information from the failure message yet.

When PCs appear at boot to have lost configured BIOS settings,
it is worth replacing the CMOS battery (price $2 to $4.) Its service
nowadays varies widely, anything from one to six years.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

1PW · External Since: Aug 25, 2009 Posts: 24

Don Phillipson wrote:
>> timOleary wrote:
>>> AUSUS P5 WD2-E PREMIUM D805 WXPPROSP2
>>>
>>> During POST, suddenly my system stops at the RAM test; than after a
>>> long pause displays lots of info on my masters and slaves, the says at
>>> the bottom:
>>>
>>> "overclocking failed or overvoltage failed
>>> please enter setup and re-configure your system
>>> press F1 to run setup
>>> press F2 to load defaults values and continue"
>>>
>>> I pressed F2. and am able to use the PC and send this SOS
>>> What does this mean and what should I do?
>
> "1PW" <1PW.DeleteThis@INVALID.com> wrote in message
> news:h884v4$e36$1@news.eternal-september.org...
>
>> If it doesn't repeat, then it was a transient occurrence.
>>
>> If it does repeat and you have been altering BIOS values, you've gone
>> too far.
>>
>> If it does repeat and you have not been altering BIOS values, then you
>> have a possible hardware trouble for which you have not given us
>> enough information from the failure message yet.
>
> When PCs appear at boot to have lost configured BIOS settings,
> it is worth replacing the CMOS battery (price $2 to $4.) Its service
> nowadays varies widely, anything from one to six years.

Agreed! Cheap insurance.

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1PW