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If anyone is, I'm in dire need of help...thanks to my own stupidity. I started tinkering with my comp. BIOS and I messed with the processor settings. Now it won't even POST. What do I do to get back into the BIOS and reset the processor settings. System specs. are XP2400+ ECS KT333 Motherboard, Maxtor 80G hard drive 512MB RAM, WinXP Home.

The motherboard should have a jumper on it to reset everything back to default settings. You need to pull this jumper, turn on the computer....it'll most likely beep at you.....then turn it off.....put jumper back on, and then start it up again.

The MB's manual should tell you where this jumper is.

Thanks a billion Josh! Is there anything you don't know? While I have your attention, I have another question for you. I know you've done quite a few performance mods to your car without dynoing to get concrete numbers. My question is can you feel a difference (does your car feel faster) in the way your car runs? Do you plan on dynoing to get numbers. Okay, I said one question but here's another. When I changed my timimg belt a while ago, my car seemed alot more powerful and quicker. Then, my pulley fell off. Luckily I was able to put it back together but I'd lost the aforementioned power after this happened. Should i have changed the timing belt again? I didn't because it didn't look damaged. Man, I miss that power. BTW, my comp works now.

depending on the board there are different ways to reset cmos. judging by ecs's site theres only one kt333 board, the k7vta3. Depending on which revision of the board you have you'll need to find the cmos jumper pins. First make sure the comp is off, then put the jumper on pins 2 and 3, then return the jumper to pins 1 and 2, then turn the comp on and the bios will be reset. If you don't have a manual get one here. If you need more help ask here

Glad you got it working.....like my gf says.....I know all sorts of random stuff....hehe.

The feels faster thing.....see....I really can't answer that.....Firstly, my car is FWD.....so I don't have that parasitic loss on the drive train, plus I have a different gear ratio. Secondly, my auto box is not doin so hot. I have had a few other subaru people drive my car and they said it felt faster then theirs. My buddy down here that has a turbo legacy says mine felt similar to his.....however I can tell the difference in driving his. I do think my car isn't slow. it's certainly not a monster, but for how many miles and the trans, it does pretty damn well IMO. I should really try and get it dyno'd.

This summer I'm tentatively planning doing my 5spd & AWD swap. The drivetrain will be from a turbo legacy so it will have a 3.9 final drive ratio, which is close to my 3.7. I'd probably be able to give you a feel in comparing with the MT just because the trans will be rebuilt and will not be loosing as much power through it.


As for the power......hmmm....I'll be curious how mine reacts. I'm planning on doing the t-belt this weekend on my car. If the t-belt was not damaged, you should be fine. More then likely what happen is when the pulley came off, the knock sensor picked up a large "knock" and the ECU retarded the timing, which made the engine lose power. Try resetting the ECU and see if that changes anything.

Unless the belt was off a tooth or the tensioner was failing, you shouldn't have seen a difference in power between belts.

Steve

I was going to ask about the tensioner next. I think I checked the timing belt to make sure it was all good but I don't recall counting the teeth to make sure they were right. Maybe I'll give it a look when I get some down time.

Most modern BIOS's will let you start the computer in to a default FAILSAFE mode if you start the computer and hold down the INSERT key. That will clock everything back to normal, and allow you to enter the bios, without resetting the jumper.

-Brian