boot - Enabling unleashed mode failed
2014-07
Luke
I'm trying to unlock 4th core of AMD Athlon II x3 450 CPU on Asus motherboard and American Megatrends BIOS. However, after I enable Unleashed! mode in BIOS, and restart computer, the monitor doesn't turn on; it stays in power saving mode.
After restarting computer again, I get the BIOS error: Activating Unleashed mode failed. Press F1 to load setup F2 to load default settings. Tried with turning on Unleashed mode and leaving everything else on auto, and with manually setting cores, same result. Also getting same outcome when activating ASUS core unlocker. The thing that got my attention that 'Core value', I think it's called like that, is set to -2% for all cores, and I'm not sure what it means or is it related.
So, did I just had bad luck and got the cpu with malfunctioning 4th core, or I am doing something wrong?
EDIT: info you asked: Motherboard Asus M5A78L-M LX. Couldn't get that from CPU-Z or Everest, took me a couple restarts to finally write down model. It's not brand-name computer, so manually assembled. It's ~1.5 yrs old. Don't get me wrong - it works just fine with 3 cores, and it's meant to work with 3 cores, but I hoped I can unlock 4th one too.
Joel Verhagen
I was recently playing around with the BIOS of my motherboard (ASUS PC-DL Deluxe w/ 2 2.2 ghz Xeon processors and 4 1gb sticks of RAM) and I chose to set my BIOS settings to fail-safe mode.
After I saved the changes, the computer restarted but got stuck on the part of the BIOS startup where it lists my processor(s). It got past the POST (short single beep) and got past listing what CPUs I have. Normally, after listing the CPUs my BIOS would tell me how much RAM I have. It never gets to that point... it just waits there forever.
I have tried all the obvious things like making sure my keyboard and mouse are plugged in (I've tried both PS2 and USB peripherals). I'm pretty sure my RAM is fine. I've also plugged in a floppy drive to make sure it wasn't getting caught on that. I've reset the CMOS too. Nothing has worked. It just keeps on getting stuck at the same place. One thing that might mean something to someone smarter than me, as it is booting up, if I press the DEL key (the key to enter BIOS Setup) very rapidly before it gets stuck, it prints the message "Entering setup...", but then gets caught at the same place it always does.
Any suggestions?
Marcus
While you apparently believe your RAM is fine, you can try to remove a few DIMMs and test if the boot process changes in any way. Basically start with one DIMM and if it still doesn't work exchange the one with one of the others (basically you can do this with each single module you have), assuming the board supports booting with one DIMM.
Resetting the CMOS would have been the obvious first step but you already did that. Is there any way you can be sure it did actually reset. Try changing the CMOS jumper for a little longer than stated in the manual for resetting or remove the CMOS battery for some time (a few minutes should suffice). Note that I don't actually know how resetting the CMOS on this particular mainboard works.