Recent content by Taed

Yay! ECS released BIOS revision 1.1e which did resolve my issue with incompatibility with my CPU model. While you two also have 3.0 GHz P4s, mine is a different CPUID and core E0, which the previous bioses apparently had an issue with. FYI, there was someone on another thread somewhere that...

Well, I tried 1.1D, and it again didn't work for my standard configuration of a 3.0E P4 with either DDR400 or DDR266, but it worked fine with my other CPU. So, same experience as with 1.1B, but I did some more DDR testing. I remain convinced that the BIOS is bad, but only for my CPUID (and...

I found that other person's post: http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=952337 I searched Google and Usenet for anyone else with that same MCE code, and you two are the only ones! Shocking! Well, I'd start by making sure that you have the newest BIOS for your motherboard. Probably 1/3...

That is an MCE, Machine Check Exception, which essentially means that the CPU microcode "crashed". Usually, it's an unfixed bug in the CPU -- I've run into them about 5 times over the last 5 years looking after a network of 5000 machines, so they're pretty rare. Once you decode what the MCE...

I did some more whining to ECS (and I assume other customers did as well) and they released a new BIOS yesterday, 1.1d, for the PT800CE-A. I'm scared to try it after the trouble I had last time, though! :-) It can be found at...

WCPUID doesn't put it in the "standard" format. It's a 4-nybble hexidecimal value of the Family, Model, and Stepping. WCPUID shows those, but in decimal. Thus, you probably see something like Family 15, Model 3, and Stepping 3. The program CPU-Z is pretty cool as well, and gives more...

I had a very bad experience with the new 1.1B BIOS for the PT800CE-A. My system was working fine with 1.1A, but the new BIOS released a few weeks ago contained new microcode for a few CPUs (including mine, a 3.0E P4 with CPUID 0F41H), and allegedly fixed a problem with DDR 400 memory with a...