Hello everyone,

I have an AN8 32X that's been serving loyally for 2 years or so. Last weekend I moved it to a new case and installed a new video card. When I was moving it to the new case (before any expansion cards were installed) I noticed that it was generating a F1 error during the POST, which the manual told me was a reset caused by the processor being too overclocked. This didn't make a ton of sense to me, since I've never overclocked that machine.

I've tried clearing the CMOS and removing the CMOS battery for about an hour - neither seems to make any difference. The machine usually starts after between 10 seconds and a minute of showing the F1 error. Restarting after that (without disconnecting the power cord or turning off the power supply) does not produce further F1 errors. However, cutting power to the board long enough for the standby power to drain causes the error to recur (for another 10-60s).

Anyone have any idea what might be causing this? The only thing I can imagine is a dead CMOS battery, but I have no experience with this so I don't know if that's just wishful thinking.

Thanks in advance

Could be the lithium battery. Did you unplug power cord? Did you try each stick of ram in slot, starting from the furtherest one?

Did you set the values in the bios correctly?

CMOS batteries last for 4-5 years. It is something simple, like maybe the CPU fan being plugged into Chases fan jack instead of the CPU fan jack.

The F1 error is a generic signal. Reseat all of your cards and modules and just keep going on. From what I remember, it doesn't stop you from booting and will go away by itself after a few startups. There are a few of that generation boards that all did the same thing. If the problem persists, you might try digging through the Austek forums to get more info on it .