A8N32 Bizarre Issue

[Opie]

OK, this is beyond strange: I haven't touched my bios in weeks. This morning my computer will not even post and played BF2 a *lot* yesterday. Starting to panic after multiple attempts to start up I kill the PSU via the rocker switch, turn it back and I get a post - whew. My releief turns to panic again once the machine tells me that my "Overclock Failed" and I must go into setup.

Everything looks OK until I go to the FSB freq and its set at 456! I have not / did not set it at this! I lower it to 200 and everything is now fine & dandy.

Have any of you seen anything like this before?

 

[noobtech]

Mine has done that before without messing with it as well... I changed it, but thank god it didn't mess anything up?

 

[Least]

...got any siblings/roommates/parents?

 

[noobtech]

no one messes with my computer... but yeah, I got family

 

[Opie]

No one in my house even knows what a bios is but me.....I guess its a testament to this board's failsafe mechanisms that nothing got damaged.

 

[flynlr]

darn if that had worked it would have been a pretty nice overclock

 

[MrkXCeL]

sounds like a backup battery issue ... but on such a new MOBO!? Weird

Anyway, check bios to see if it shows battery volts, or yank the battery and get a volt meter to it, it might be a lemon. If you pull the battery with u]your PSU on / System Off then it should keep your settings. I would note them down just in case.

Has anyone had this and tried flashing a fresh BIOS on it, you know, kinda to freshen up the bios memory in case of some glitch?