In a message dated 06/22/2000 8:01:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< I've tried to connect my new drive 20.4 Gig (7200) Maxtor  to the this
 controller but couldn't get it to recognize it. So I reconnected my  10.2
 Gig (5400) back to my BX6 motherboard IDE  controller. When I booted I got
 the message "CPU is unworkable or has been changed. Please recheck - CPU
 software." What I tried to do was boot form Diskcopy. Does anyone know what
 this message really means?
 Harvey Rose
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Hi,
  On Abit Motherboards, in the BIOS there is a setting on the CPU Soft Menu
II page (off the main BIOS page), that is labelled "Speed Error Hold", if
this is enabled and you have any of the CPU parameters not at default
settings (i.e. overclocked) you will get this message, just disable the
"Speed Error Hold" and it will boot normally, even if overclocked.

HTH,
Peter Hogan
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