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seraphin maketo   09-08-2009 at 08:20:05 PM

I just finish building a computer and I have a problem posting a Bios.
I used MSI motherboard K9A2 CF, Athlon 64 x 2 Dual core CPU , G.SKILL 2x2GB DDR2-1066 PC2-8500 memory, 750 GB WD HD, GEFORCE Galaxy 9500 GT Video Card and 600w PSU. Well, when I turn it on everything seem to work just fine. I push "DEL" to get to BIOS, it will come up but don't stay, it will flash for one or two second and disapear and the message will come up. "Reboot and select proper boot device or Insert boot Media in selected boot device and press a key". The BIOS doesn't stay long enough for me to change the booting order so I can load my Operating system. Please help.

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bige420   09-08-2009 at 08:26:18 PM
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Well, as far as I know the Athlon 64 X2's only support up to DDR2 800 ram, but it should lower the speed to 800mhz by itself. At any rate it might be a ram problem, but I'd wait to see what other say because im not 100% sure. Try taking out one of the sticks of ram and trying to get it to boot. Then if it doesnt switch it out of the other and try again.


Message edited by bige420 on 09-08-2009 at 08:27:31 PM
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ohiou_grad_06   09-09-2009 at 12:06:58 AM
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Try resetting cmos first. Easy way to do it, remove the battery from your mobo for about 20 seconds, put it back in, fire it back up. Don't know about the ddr2 800 thing, that may be the case, but most of the time the mobo is able to simply downclock the memory, or should be able to.

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4745454b   09-09-2009 at 05:48:14 AM
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Sounds to me like your not pushing the button early enough. Or perhaps the wrong button? Not every bios uses del. Check the manual, it might be F2, etc.

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