[ale] Asus P4P800-VM Woes

[Greg Freemyer]

On Nov 29, 2007 8:32 AM, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I finally got my Asus P4P800-VM working.  I had to update the BIOS and
> I'm not sure why.
>
> Here is the story.
>
> Customer had a failing system so they sent it to use for repair.  UPS
> trashed it so we sold them a new system.  When we opened up trashed
> system the CPU had been knocked out of the socket and pins bent.  Lost
> cause.  Later we decided to resurrect the machine.  It had a 2.4GHZ
> Celeron and We replaced it with a 2.4Ghz Celeron.  New fan and new hard
> drives.  I decide to install FC8 on machine.  All works well til first
> boot and  it hangs at "starting udev" for about 10 minutes.  It then
> continues but takes 15 minutes to get to login.  It is as if I'm on a
> 386 16mHz.  I try FC7.  Same thing.  FC6 Same thing.  I decide that as a
> last ditch I would upgrade the 1012 Bios -> 1018.  I do each revision
> until I get to last revision and FC6 works great.  I go back and install
> FC8 and it is still running at full speed now.
>
> One thing I did notice on FC8 before the BIOS upgrade was that the
> kernel kept complaining about CPU temp and throttled the speed.  No
> messages after upgrade.  What I would like to figure out is why the BIOS
> upgrade was needed.  Was the new Celeron D not compatible?  Were the
> drivers in the new kernel trying to use non-existent features that was
> causing the slow behavior?
>
> Chris

Chris,

Don't about your problem, but I've bought 3 new Intel CPUs in the last
couple months.  I think at least 2 different models.  Using 2
different MBs, I was getting "failure to load uCode, Hit F1 to
continue." .  After hitting F1 things seemed to be fine.

I upgraded the bios on the first 2 of these and the problem sent away.
 The 3rd just occurred yesterday with a different MB and I haven't
checked to see if there is a bios update or not yet.

Greg
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