Guest Sleepy Posted July 23, 2007 Posted July 23, 2007 "Beladi Nasralla" <nasra11a@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1185217051.289977.147470@e16g2000pri.googlegroups.com... > On Jul 24, 3:33 am, "Sleepy" <nos...@here.com> wrote: >> "Beladi Nasralla" <nasra...@yahoo.com> wrote in message >> >> news:1185212263.079475.94130@z28g2000prd.googlegroups.com... >> >> >> >> >> >> > Gee, I got a problem with my homebuilt PC. This happened after I >> > overclocked the comp, and it rebooted by itself a few times because I >> > pushed it too far. (I put the FSB back since then.) >> >> > The menus in the "Display Properties" changed. Their number decreased, >> > and they reverted to the standard Windows amount and look. Anyway, I >> > went to "Device Manager", and then to "Computer". It says: "ACPI >> > Multiprocessor PC". I do not remember if this should be. I think the >> > driver should have the name of my MSI motherboard instead of this >> > generic one. I thought maybe I should have re-installed the driver. So >> > that I installed again the "system driver" and the "AMD driver". >> > Nothing changed :-( Also, I noticed that in "Device Manager --> >> > System Devices --> Motherboard resources", the Motherboard resources >> > is a generic driver. I am not sure if that should be generic and not >> > the MSI one. >> >> > I reinstalled Windows, and did a clean install of all of the drivers. >> > The situation is still the same. Maybe I screwed the BIOS ? Can you >> > please tell me what is going on ? And, firstly, shold the "ACPI >> > Multiprocessor PC" be there as a generic driver ? >> >> > Thanks. >> >> ACPI Multiprocessor PC is correct if you have a dual core CPU like a AMD >> X2 >> (which I have ) and I assume its the same for Core 2s. Your motherboard >> does >> not show up in the Device Manager. Stuff like a specific IDE controller >> or >> PCI to AGP driver maybe but you wont see a mention of the Motherboard >> make >> and model.- > > OK, I did more digging around. When I installed DigiCell, it > complained: "Failed to load driver". DigiCell (a motherboard utility) > used to work before. I could not load the Dual Core Centre could not > load either. The situation is like described by the guy > > http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1067265&page=1 > > He thinks that the motherboard does not load utilities/drivers. > Perhaps this is a corrapted BIOS or motherboard. I am yet to find out > how to "flash the BIOS". Ive never heard a bios becoming corrupted in the way you describe and bios updates are for adding new features like new CPU support etc ... I'd strongly advise against flashing the bios. If Windows reboots repeatedly it can easily get messed up and even get to the point where it wont boot at all. Formatting the drive and installing Windows afresh will sort it but doing a repair installation - maybe not. It would help to reset the bios by disconnecting power and pulling the CMOS battery out for a minute. Then boot up and put all bios settings to defaults. Go into Windows and reinstall drivers beginning with Mobo drivers then graphics and sound etc.... Quote
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