BP6, dual Cel, cpu usage always on 50%???

[Turbo Grunkamoj 0]

Hello, a friend of mine has just recently bought the following:

Abit BP6 motherboard

2 x 533Mhz Celeron

128 Mb ram pc100

1 x Ultra 66, 20GB IBM Harddrive.

He has a problem: The cpu-usage meter is always on 50%, even after a clean installation, without any special drivers, no programs, games or utilities. Sometimes it gets free, for example, he installed Q3A, and ran a timedemo there.

At first it was like glue, clearly something was eating up alot of cpu-power, then all of a sudden it cleared and ran fin for a while, but not for long. Anyone know anything about this? Anyone who has had the same problem? Or knows how to resolve it?

plz help if you can.

btw: He is using the QQ-bios not the final since with that his computer wount even boot, but the "evaluation-release" is working so far, this problem has "all of a sudden" appeared, it was working flawless before...

[APV_SAV 0]

The QQ final bios has know problems and had been withdrawn from abit web page, use the QQ-01 beta which is still available at abit ftp site and wait for new bios. btw qq-01 is by far working flawlessly with W2K and most stable of all bios

[Turbo Grunkamoj 0]

Sure if you want to discuss known facts thats okay, but anyone who has any ideas regarding the acctuall problem?

[APV_SAV 0]

the known problem is within the bios, if you want more info to resolve it, try contacting Abit, I think they will be delighted that you can solve something that their tech can't do. good try for applying a job for Abit, IMHO.

 

Good luck on your quest :-)

[APV_SAV 0]

oh fogot 1 thing, try reflashing the bios with bios cacheable disabled and after the flash, turn off power (pull cord from power source) and hardware clear cmos. (read manual)

[Turbo Grunkamoj 0]

Thanx for your help, will forward it to my friend.

btw: If I seemed grumpy before, it wasn't my intention