Re: press 4 to unlock core

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:07:15 -0400, bad sector
<forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:

>
>Having 'increasing' probs with my 8-core AMD destktop.
>The board is an asus-xhair-IV
>
>Boot often doesn't even begin and pops the subject
>error message which includes "or F.. to load defaults"
>and words of this nature.
>
>CPU temps never above 50c.
>
>BIOS should come up by touching "Del" but it takes a dozen
>attempts for that to work with my new usb gaming keyboard.
>
>This morning bios just would  not detect 2 of my data drives
>in sata slots 3 & 4 (using a 5-bay rack with 1-4 sata reserved).
>
>After I don't know how many reboots bios still wasn't detecting
>but "fdisk -l" finally picked one of them up.
>
>On the last boot bios detected it too, got it mounted, and
>it's presently taking 1tb of backups.
>
>I would just like some ballpark hunches to start with, what
>do symptoms like this suggest?  Mobo, rack, bios?

Battery cr-2032 could be going bad (low voltage)


KenW