Upgrade Bios?

[inmate]

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anyone ever had this message before and wat can i do?

[odannyboy000]

did you change CPU's?

[inmate]

did you change CPU's?

I
took my cpu out and put new thermal compound on.

[Mini-Me]

Why did you feel you needed to do that if the system was running before?
...just curious...
:)

If you put silver-grease on the CPU die and/or heatsink before you reassembled the heatsink to the CPU, then perhaps you used too much grease?

There should be a moderately thin layer of grease only.
Too much of the silver grease is bad, as silver grease is conductive(unlike the other white "Heatsink Compound" grease).

When renewing the grease, you MUST clean off all of the old grease from both the heatsink, and the CPU die. If the heatsink used one of those little gray square things between the heatsink and the CPU, then this must be carefully scraped off - you must not attempt to reuse these gray pads, they are a use-once item, and once they have been disturbed by removing the heatsink, you must not attempt to reuse them.

Both heatsink and CPU die should be spotlessly clean before you apply the new grease.

Failure to do the cleaning step, will result in a bad thermal connection between the CPU and the heatsink, which means that your CPU can actually overheat.

Modern CPU's run very hot, and if not correctly heatsinked, can cook themselves extremely quickly - the Windows error you are getting could simply be caused by an overheating CPU.

Any CPU from the AMD Duron's/Intel P3(socket 370) should have silver grease, not the white heatsink compound, as the silver grease has a lower thermal resistance then the white goo does.

Most modern CPU's will actually overheat, if you use the white goo as the heatsink compound.

Even if you do it right.

Sorry if you know all this already, but I wasn't sure, so I thought I'd better be specific.
;)