Locking BIOS Settings

I have an Asus A7V880 motherboard and an AMD Barton Athlon XP 3000 processor which means that, in order to run at 2.2(?)GHz like the processor's designed for, I have to bump up the bus speed in the BIOS from its default setting (this is a safety feature from Asus to prevent accidental overclocking of slower processors). However, once in awhile, my computer will crash and, when it reboots, my fiance has a habit of hitting F2 to load the default BIOS settings which bumps me down to 1.2GHz.

Is there any way to lock this setting so that it doesn't keep getting reset? The slower processor speed doesn't normally bother me but, I'd like to get what I paid for and I have a few programs that require the faster processor speed.

 

But will that remove the option to "load default settings" on reboot after a crash? I'll try that but I'm hesitant as to whether that will work. Thank you though.

 

Yes, I can't think of any ways around it. What I'm wondering is why it happens.
If the BIOS is set to Quick POST or Quick Boot and it cannot set, say resources in the Quick POST configuration, that may be why it requests to go back to default settings.

Look at disabling Quick POST or see if maybe the setting of resources or the drive configuration maybe cause the original error. You can change the resource configuration by relocating any PCI cards into a different slot. Put soundcards or dialup modems in the end slots (near the edge of the motherboard), LAN cards can go in the first slots and I would expect things like TV tuner cards to go there as well.

For drive configuration, you will need to reset the master/slave or CS jumper settings.

Matt