New CPU, is this a concern?

[Ace Modder]

Hi
I've just installed my new dual core 3800 AMD X2 CPU

I after five mins I got a blue screen of death

is this anything to worry about

"A clock interupt was not received on the secondary processor withing the allocated time"

 

[Will_3rd]

haven't seen something like that before, sounds pretty terminal

 

[Ace Modder]

what software can I run to burn test my dual processors, to ensure no problems!

 

[Will_3rd]

Prime95 and Sandra burn-in tests afaik.

 

[jaykay]

did you flash the latest bios

 

[Ace Modder]

No, haven't flash latest BIOS yet, but it crashed jsutf ro a 2nd time.

I wan usign quick par ona 4GB file and unrar another 4GB fiel to network drive.

Will try updating bios

 

[Ace Modder]

which bios should i be getting on this page
http://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2&s=n

 

[PaulProteus]

Check your BIOS revision and update with the latest. Also visit the AMD site and install the driver for Win XP and the optimiser (this is optional as some people did not find this useful rather the opposite).

If you have only replaced the old CPU with the new one without any update/BIOS flash, what you get is not surprising.

 

[Ace Modder]

Right I have updated my BIOS fine,.

but I have a problem the boots the bios

when loading windows vista I get "NTLDR is missing" Press CXtrl +ALT+DEL to restart

How can I fix this?

 

[KangooVanMan]

NTLDR is the bootloader, you have either accidentally removed it, or more likely the hard drive boot sequence has reset.

 

[RobertN]

orthos will stress test both cores with 1 click google for it

 

[Ace Modder]

updated BIOS, still getting same BSOD msg!

 

[Ace Modder]

how bad is this

 

[MikeWild74]

Pretty bad m8

does it do this just after post?

 

[Ace Modder]

this is usually, about 5mins into windows being loaded

but now my vista wont even load, gets to the loading bar thingy (grren) and then it gos black and then nothing! just stops there

put my old CPU back in and the same thing...

 

[RobertN]

sounds like it may be memory related if your old cpu is doing the same try slackening timings or running memtest maybe try one stick at a time

 

[PaulProteus]

Can you re-install some old copy of XP and check your hardware (memory, hard drive, cpu, etc) for faults. Once you are certain everything in this department is OK, check with AMD Vista upgrades in their FAQs.

 

[Jleo]

That image is gi-bleedin-normous I think there is a rice crispy stuck on the bottom right corner