You get that message when ever your machine see's new harware or a according to the machine when something changes and then it says hit f1 to go into the setup this is normal. Now that message could be from you shaving the cpu. First of all can you tell me why someone would tell you to do that you shouldnt have to do anything like that, if the cpu didnt fit in the first place because its wrong but again you should not have to shave anything down on the cpu with this board or any other board. if you have another 478 pin cpu or know someone who has the same board as you. then swap them to check the current cpu but i dont think its your motherboard because like you said you had shaved the cpu (never) ever do anything like that. These people that do this will not tell you on this forum that they in fact are having many problems from doing this. For example i saw a post where a guy tells another guy dont remeber who it was, for whatever reason to clean the old cpu thermal grease off by using sandpaper this is just bad advice never scratch the top of the cpu or the bottom of the heat sink the people who made these made them this way (smooth) for a reason. since your problem seems to abit more serious go ahead and email me because im very buzy with my work and when we are finished i will post the results for everybody else to see. (
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I need to know what OS your running
and if this is this a new computer was it working and then went off or whats the deal this info will help me help you
also i need to as much detail on this problem as you can remeber
did it stop working from working great or is this the first time you tried to boot the machine etc please describe the problem in detail to me starting from before you shaved the cpu.
How was it
working before you shaved the cpu very inportant.
if im not mistaken your cpu should be a 478 pin
P4C800 Front side bus on this boards supports are
Fsb 800/533/400
From what you said in your above post make me believe that when you shaved the cpu you ruined it sry to say that but thats what i think?
You didnt give the message error that was being showed. But by any chance before you shaved the cpu did it say something like this Fast track controller device not found and bios not intsalled?
This is right from the manual
Here is the table for Memory frequency/CPU FSB synchronization
CPU FSB DDR DIMM type Memory Frequency
800 MHz PC3200/PC2700*/PC2100 400/333*/266 MHz
533 MHz PC/2700/PC2100 333/266 Mhz
400 MHz PC2100 266 MHz
Knowledge is power read it, think it, use it.....
Well sry i have to go fix some more Computers, its my life i love it. but ill be back or just send message.
YOU CAN USE THE DUAL CHANNEL DDR 400 MHz MEMORY WITH THE 533 FSB CPU
BUT IT CAN ONLY RUN @ 333 MHz
Computer Tech. JIm