I have a weird issue on my machine. My PC config is as follows: ASUS M3A78-EM motherboard, AMD PHENOM II X4 940 processor, 4 GB Transcend RAM, 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDD, 600W Cooler Master PSU.
I have this computer for just over a week now. Its setup for a dual boot with Xp and Vista. The problem is weird as Xp is running fine from day one, whereas Vista is being inconsistent. At times, when I start the machine, the splash screen for Vista flickers instead of rolling smoothly and once I logon to the desktop, the system clock zooms really fast. The minute hand does a full rotation of an hour in about 5 mins time. Everything is abnormally fast. This changes the times on the BIOS when I next get into it too. Having said that, there are times when I boot it up and everything works exactly as it should.
I have tried reinstalling the OS thinking it was a problem with the s/w, tried flashing the BIOS to the latest version, nothing worked. I dunno much about the options in the BIOS for me to play around with it.
I got a hint of what could be the problem when I tried installing Windows 7 Beta on VMware, when it came up with the msg: “VMware Workstation has measured your CPU speed to be 3005 MHz, but Windows reports that it is 3000 MHz This may mean that your computer has a power-saving feature that varies the processor speed. As a result, the clock in your virtual machine may run too fast or too slow.” As a result tried disabling the “Cool n Quiet” feature for the CPU but the problem still remains intermittent.
I am am pretty ok with troubleshooting s/w issues myself, but this is way too weird for me to believe its a software issue. Pardon me for a really lengthy explanation, but I am hoping one of the experts here might give me a clue as to what’s happening, before I take it back to the place I got it from.
I have this computer for just over a week now. Its setup for a dual boot with Xp and Vista. The problem is weird as Xp is running fine from day one, whereas Vista is being inconsistent. At times, when I start the machine, the splash screen for Vista flickers instead of rolling smoothly and once I logon to the desktop, the system clock zooms really fast. The minute hand does a full rotation of an hour in about 5 mins time. Everything is abnormally fast. This changes the times on the BIOS when I next get into it too. Having said that, there are times when I boot it up and everything works exactly as it should.
I have tried reinstalling the OS thinking it was a problem with the s/w, tried flashing the BIOS to the latest version, nothing worked. I dunno much about the options in the BIOS for me to play around with it.
I got a hint of what could be the problem when I tried installing Windows 7 Beta on VMware, when it came up with the msg: “VMware Workstation has measured your CPU speed to be 3005 MHz, but Windows reports that it is 3000 MHz This may mean that your computer has a power-saving feature that varies the processor speed. As a result, the clock in your virtual machine may run too fast or too slow.” As a result tried disabling the “Cool n Quiet” feature for the CPU but the problem still remains intermittent.
I am am pretty ok with troubleshooting s/w issues myself, but this is way too weird for me to believe its a software issue. Pardon me for a really lengthy explanation, but I am hoping one of the experts here might give me a clue as to what’s happening, before I take it back to the place I got it from.
... I am still waiting for more replies!!!
My only other concern now is the temperature of the motherboard. After just a few mins of working on it, it touches 47 degrees on the PC Probe application. I can hear the fan running at quite some speed too. All I want to know is are these temps too high, is the mobo overheating???
