Going back in time actually way back. I have had the same problem with multiple machines. This was in a corporate environment and it didn't seem at the time performance was greatly affected. This was the external CPU cache and not Internal. Unless I misread your post. If it's internal CPU cache then your performance will be horrible.
Someone can come on and chime in whether what he claims as level 1 is internal or not. But regardless, it isn't a good sign. That motherboard is a pretty reliable one. I've had great luck with the Asus A7Vxxx line of products.
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Originally Posted by springen
I have a five year old MESH PC (XP Pro SP2) with an ASUS A7V8X motherboard and AMD Athlon XP 2400+ cpu. After working fine it now refuses to boot. It only gets as far as the 'boot menu', and any option, including safe mode will not work. It will not even boot from floppy and even booting from the Windows setup cd fails.
After much trying, I eventually got it to bring up Windows after I disabled cpu level 1 cache in the bios. It is unusable in this state as windows runs really really slow.
What is going on here - has the cpu had it ? Before you ask, no I haven't overclocked it and it hasn't overheated.
Is there anything else I could try before I condemn it to the bin ??  |