CPU Unworkable message at Boot up

[runningman]

Hi,

I turned on my PC yesterday and at boot up a the following message came up " CPU is unworkable or been changed"- I have not changed anything and had no problem previous to this.

I continued with Boot up by pressing F! and windows XP cant load.

Ani Ideas on whats wrong and what i can do to put things right>

Many thanks.

[Guest Wolfeymole]

I think you had a problem earlier RunningMan at this point did you not?

[petef]

Hi,

I turned on my PC yesterday and at boot up a the following message came up " CPU is unworkable or been changed"- I have not changed anything and had no problem previous to this.

This sounds familiar. I think I had a computer with the same problem and the fix

was to replace the battery on the motherboard and also set the proper CPU

clock frequencyin the BIOS. That fixed it.

 

---pete---