Weird/Scary Startup

[Moed]

Hello all,

About 6 months ago, I built a system for my son from spare parts I had lying around or picked up at used PC supply stores. It has worked perfectly fine and still does for that matter but last night, something unusual happened that I had never seen before:

During startup a BSOD appeared and I unfortunately didn't take the time to read the error message
codes but just immediately did a restart. During the POST the first thing I noticed was that the BIOS was mis-reading the CPU speed/type??? I entered the BIOS setup and checked every setting. All was as it should be except for sure enough, the CPU/FSB/RAM speeds were off?? No one but I know how to adjust any of those settings let alone even how to get into the BIOS setup so I know for sure nothing was tampered with.

I reset the parameters as they should, did a restart and all was back to normal. Now as I mentioned above, this is the first time this has ever happened and hopefully the last but, I'm worried that if it does happen again what the root cause is for this issue. One thing I can think of is that maybe the CMOS battery is starting to possibly go bad and is losing configuration settings?

Bottom line, if there are any other ideas about this, any advice/help would be greatly appreciated.

System specs for the PC in question:

ECS SIS735 motherboard
Athlon XP 2600+ CPU
1gb PC2300 RAM
Seagate 250gb HDD
Maxtor 80gb HDD
Sapphire X850XT PE video card
Soundblaster PCI128 sound card
WinXP Pro SP2 32bit version

Thanks in advance!

[Alaron]

Lets keep the discussion in one thread. Weird/Scary Startup

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