VP6 CPU Speed Problem - CPU is unworkable or has changed?

[Breezy]

I've had my VP6 for over 7 years now and Its been an outstanding board and the only problem I've had with it is the CPU speed seems to re-set itself ocassionally and I have to go into the bios-> save changes and reboot a few times for it to boot with the correct speed.

I have 2 x P3 1GHz CPU's running in it and it re-sets itself to 500mhz sometimes and in addition to this the date and time in the bios also gets re-set to 2001 too.

"CPU is unworkable or has changed"

I've flashed the board to the latest BIOS which is YT i beleive 24/07/2001?

I have done a bit of research and think it could be the cmos battery?

I've anyone has experienced this problem or knows how to fix it that would be much aprpeciated as I woudl love to get my vp6 working 100% so I can use it for a Media centre PC!


Thanks


Pav

[bgavin]

Re: VP6 CPU Speed Problem - CPU is unworkable or has changed?

Power supply and/or board caps.

[Breezy]

Re: VP6 CPU Speed Problem - CPU is unworkable or has changed?

Power supply and/or board caps.

I was getting the same issue when I purchased a new power supply a couple of years ago?

Do you have any more info on the board caps? i'm not getting any stability issues at all when its running its just ocassionally re-setting the cpu speed info and date/time.

I guess changing the battery wont do any harm


Pav

[kc8adu]

Re: VP6 CPU Speed Problem - CPU is unworkable or has changed?

replace cmos battery and recap it.
it will then continue to serve you well.
any vp6 that still posts is worth fixing.

[Topcat]

Re: VP6 CPU Speed Problem - CPU is unworkable or has changed?

^
Yup. Recap. FWIW, I still have a VP6 in operation as a backup server.

[kc8adu]

Re: VP6 CPU Speed Problem - CPU is unworkable or has changed?

and use this bios.
then thank topcat.