Engrish Anyone?

EDIT: Problem solved - a jumper was not bridging two chassis intrusion pins correctly, I cleaned off the pins, and then replaced the jumper, and it worked.

Can someone please tell me what the heck this means. This is my backup rig. When I finally had to use it this morning, I get this engrish (which I have been plagued with in the past). Sometimes it happens. Sometimes it goes away. Last time I used it, it worked fine. When I finally needed to use this computer for troubleshooting a kernel problem on my main rig, I was bombarded with this error loop- forcing me to BIOS setup each time.

I had to end up using a PI rig with a USB NIC (talk about sluggish... each time a page would load the CPU load would go to 100% and I would have to wait about 20 seconds).

Anyway- system specs are below:

Asus A7N266-VM
AMD Athlon XP 1700+
256MB PC2700 Fake Crucial RAM (thanks buyaib.com @#$%^&$!!! scammers)
Maxtor 5400 40GB HDD
16x LiteOn DVD
Onboard everything else (Integrated GPU, NIC, sound,...)
Windows XP Professional SP2

"Message Confirmation - The system intruded, chassis opened or tempered before"

Hit OK, reboot, bios setup reloads, message confirmation reappears... repeats over and over and over...

i think it's telling you it's been violated

it means someone opened up the pc case. On some pc's there is a sensor to warn you about this. The idea is that the hd, parts, can't be tampered with.

Aphex_Tom_9 said:

i think it's telling you it's been violated

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As funny as that sounds, I cannot understand how it could know the chassis has been opened- there is no chassis intrusion button or sensor that I know of. I was thinking maybe the proper english of this would be:

"The system was intruded into, chassis was opened, or the system has been tampered with"

But that's just impossible for the mobo to know.

Perhaps disabling Chassis Intrustion in the BIOS would be a good idea.

LmpPns said:

Perhaps disabling Chassis Intrustion in the BIOS would be a good idea.

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I spent a good 20 minutes searching through bios settings for that feature. Couldn't find it. And I can't find the sensor button thing / pins to ensure nothing is giving it a false reading or is shorting it causing it to think the chassis is opened.

i got raped !!!!!!!!!!!


if it is saying that then it has the ability to shut it off
keep looking

Contra said:

i got raped !!!!!!!!!!!


if it is saying that then it has the ability to shut it off
keep looking

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There is no setting in bios. I'm looking for a chassis jumper or perhaps a light sensor that I can just electric tape over... but no luck so far.

Check your Motherboard or Case Manual

http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A7N266-VM

Heres a link to the manual. There is a jumper to disable that case intrusion thingy its to the right of the blue IDE port.

But before you do, make sure you do a specimen test.

Oooh, a pregnant motherboard has got to be the worst...

[diggingforgold] "Why do you keep rebooting?"
[motherboard, sobbing] "I don't knowwwww!"

Best to get her on the patch, M8.

Diggrr said:

Oooh, a pregnant motherboard has got to be the worst...

[diggingforgold] "Why do you keep rebooting?"
[motherboard, sobbing] "I don't knowwwww!"

Best to get her on the patch, M8.

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LOL.

Actually- I fixed the problem. There's a line of jumpers near the case button/light pins that has a jumper that goes over two of the four pins (where you can hook up a case intrusion light sensor or button). If you don't have a sensor, you have to bridge the two pins, or the mobo will think the sensor has been tripped.

Well, the pins appeared to be bridged correctly. But I noticed a lot of cement dust over the other pins. So I pulled the jumper and cleaned off the pins that were underneath it, and replaced it, and it booted up normally.

So my guess is there was a poor connection or perhaps the concrete just was bridging some other jumpers causing false readings... I dunno- but its fixed now. So if I ever see this thing giving me more problems, I know what to do.

Hmm thats interesting....never heard of something like that....good that you found that out

diggingforgold said:

Well, the pins appeared to be bridged correctly. But I noticed a lot of cement dust over the other pins. So I pulled the jumper and cleaned off the pins that were underneath it, and replaced it, and it booted up normally.

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Why was there cement in your computer?!?!