Re: press 4 to unlock core

On 2020-10-22 15:41, VanguardLH wrote:
> bad sector <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:
> 
>> Having 'increasing' probs with my 8-core AMD destktop.
>> The board is an asus-xhair-IV
>                          /
> No, it's "Crosshair" ---  but which model is unspecified.
> 
> If you want to severely narrow down the responses to only those that
> have this product to know you meant crosshair instead of x then don't
> use abbreviations that would be uncertain to other users.  In order for
> other users (not of this particular motherboard) to be able to lookup
> the product to know what it is to help you, don't make them guess as to
> what you have.

Noted, my sincere apologies.
  
>  From what I found in searches, the product's name could be:
> 
> ASUS Crosshair IV Formula
> or
> ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme

it's Crosshair IV Formula
  

> The CMOS battery is probably dead.  It cannot maintain the contents of
> the CMOS table, so the contents of that table are corrupt or invalid
> forcing the BIOS to load the defaults from the EEPROMs.  Replace the
> CMOS battery, reset the BIOS (use a jumper to short the 2-pin header on
> the motherboard) to ensure the defaults get loaded into the CMOS table,
> and retest.

I put a new one in it, no cigar, same problems