Tim's Tech Tips

The following is an unedited email, and my response...

Question:

"hello tim, N reading today on how can i fix mi 3yr ole neva used cpu, notice your talent & willingness of your free time to help mankind, paitent enough for your advise & recommendations my machine is a noname brand with motherboard asus model p4s8x-mx motherboard revision is 1.03 & bios revision is 0808, POST error msg. is overclocking failure . I cannot access bios because of power turns off automatically......trying to reset bios back to default settings , any suggestion PLEASE ADVISE , MOST APPRECIATIVE "

Response: 

Huh?

I apologize, but the only thing I got out of your e-mail was "overclocking failure", so I'm going to respond to that. More information (preferably in English) would be helpful. For instance... Have you actually overclocked your processor? This error can be thrown out from HDD failures as well as RAM issues, so it doesn't necessarily mean the problem is due to overclocking, especially if you haven't actually overclocked anything.

On ASUS, if it were overclocked, this message would generally trigger a BIOS reset, so I'm assuming it's not an overclocked machine. In that case, try and get into DOS (Bart PE?) and do memtest and chkdsk.

If you can provide more information, or if this doesn't resolve your issue, please call/write/IM me and I would be glad to provide further assistance.