NVRAM Problem

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marcbkk wrote:

> I am running an ASUS P4P800S-X Motherboard with a P4 3.0GHz CPU, 1GB
> of DDR Ram consisting of two 512 chips, and an ASUS Radeon 9550SE VGA
> card.
>
> Recently I started having problems on boot-up where during the boot
> sequence the computer would freeze when it reached the NVRAM check.
>
> The screen will say
>
> DDR Frequency 400 Mhz
> Checking NVRAM..
>
> And then it stops booting up.
>
> If I turn off the power and reboot it then gets past that part on the
> second boot and shows the following instead:
>
> Overclocking Failed! Please enter Setup to
> re-configure your system.
>
> If I then press F1 to enter the Bios Setup menu and exit without
> changing anything the computer boots up fine.
>
> This problem now happens every time I boot my PC from having been
> powered off.
>
> At first I thought maybe the Ram chips were loose so I took them out
> and swapped the slots. That didn�t help.
>
> Now I am thinking it may be a BIOS setting, but I am not sure what I
> would need to reset in the BIOS to fix the problem.
>
> Any ideas would be kindly appreciated.
>

As a first step, I would change the CMOS battery. Next,
ascertain that the setting for PnP OS is "disable" in bios
setup.