Please....can anybody help me ?

I have computer with P4MA motherboard via chipset, processor intel pentum 4
, I don't know exactkly why it can't start and display booting error
message:

Award Bootblock V1.0

BIOS ROM checksum Error

Detecting floppy drive A Media


How to resolve this problem ?


Best Regards.


Rudi Harsono

binapusat wrote:

> Please....can anybody help me ?
>
> I have computer with P4MA motherboard via chipset, processor intel pentum
> 4 , I don't know exactkly why it can't start and display booting error
> message:
>
> Award Bootblock V1.0
>
> BIOS ROM checksum Error
>
> Detecting floppy drive A Media
>
>


How long has it been doing this, does it do it on every boot etc etc
--

Stacey

yes, it do it every boot. It stop here, can't do anything (etc: Read data
from Harddisk)

"Stacey" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> binapusat wrote:
>
> > Please....can anybody help me ?
> >
> > I have computer with P4MA motherboard via chipset, processor intel
pentum
> > 4 , I don't know exactkly why it can't start and display booting error
> > message:
> >
> > Award Bootblock V1.0
> >
> > BIOS ROM checksum Error
> >
> > Detecting floppy drive A Media
> >
> >
>
>
> How long has it been doing this, does it do it on every boot etc etc
> --
>
> Stacey

Bitstring <(E-Mail Removed)>, from the wonderful person
binapusat <(E-Mail Removed)> said
>Please....can anybody help me ?
>
>I have computer with P4MA motherboard via chipset, processor intel pentum 4
>, I don't know exactkly why it can't start and display booting error
>message:
>
>Award Bootblock V1.0
>
>BIOS ROM checksum Error
>
>Detecting floppy drive A Media
>
>
>How to resolve this problem ?

Unless this motherboard has some emergency flash or bios recovery
ability (most don't), then the solution requires the installation of a
replacement BIOS chip since the old one has died, or gotten corrupted.
I assume you didn't try to 'Flash' the BIOS recently (power failure in
the middle of flashing the BIOS will do this most of the time)?

If it's under warranty take it back. If it isn't, you need a replacement
BIOS chip (normally from the motherboard manufacturer) and someone with
the tools/experience to fit it. Or you could change the motherboard

--
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Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

GSV Three Minds in a Can <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> binapusat <(E-Mail Removed)> said
>>Award Bootblock V1.0
>>BIOS ROM checksum Error
>>Detecting floppy drive A Media
>
> Unless this motherboard has some emergency flash or bios recovery
> ability (most don't), then the solution requires the installation of a

This "detecting floppy drive A" sounds like an emergency
recovery facility. An MS-DOS formatted disk with the
flasher and ROM code should permit reflashing the BIOS.

Try putting in an MS-DOS bootable floppy and see what happens.
Check the mfr's website.

-- Robert

Bitstring <8xGtc.994$(E-Mail Removed)>, from the
wonderful person Robert Redelmeier <(E-Mail Removed)> said
>GSV Three Minds in a Can <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> binapusat <(E-Mail Removed)> said
>>>Award Bootblock V1.0
>>>BIOS ROM checksum Error
>>>Detecting floppy drive A Media
>>
>> Unless this motherboard has some emergency flash or bios recovery
>> ability (most don't), then the solution requires the installation of a
>
>This "detecting floppy drive A" sounds like an emergency
>recovery facility. An MS-DOS formatted disk with the
>flasher and ROM code should permit reflashing the BIOS.
>
>Try putting in an MS-DOS bootable floppy and see what happens.
>Check the mfr's website.

Good suggestion - I'm not familiar with that particular board and I
didn't check the manufacturer's site to see if it can, in fact, recover
from a dead BIOS.

OTOH a BIOS chip which lost data once (assuming the OP didn't mis-flash
it) doesn't inspire confidence for the future, even if you can reload a
working version from floppy.

--
GSV Three Minds in a Can
Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

GSV Three Minds in a Can <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> OTOH a BIOS chip which lost data once (assuming the OP didn't mis-flash
> it) doesn't inspire confidence for the future, even if you can reload a
> working version from floppy.

Fully agreed. Sounds like a bad EEPROM cell. A good
candidate for RMA, especially if it repeats.

-- Robert

>

binapusat wrote:

> yes, it do it every boot. It stop here, can't do anything (etc: Read data
> from Harddisk)
>


The reason I asked, I had a system that would give me a bios checksum error
on one boot attaempt, the next would boot up without a hitch. Turned out to
be a flakey PSU was doing this. Might be worth trying if you have a spare
one?
--

Stacey

oh....last night I acquire the problem, it's lost CMOS battery, I had
replacement with new one but isn't success. It's still appear same problem.

"GSV Three Minds in a Can" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Bitstring <(E-Mail Removed)>, from the wonderful person
> binapusat <(E-Mail Removed)> said
> >Please....can anybody help me ?
> >
> >I have computer with P4MA motherboard via chipset, processor intel pentum
4
> >, I don't know exactkly why it can't start and display booting error
> >message:
> >
> >Award Bootblock V1.0
> >
> >BIOS ROM checksum Error
> >
> >Detecting floppy drive A Media
> >
> >
> >How to resolve this problem ?
>
> Unless this motherboard has some emergency flash or bios recovery
> ability (most don't), then the solution requires the installation of a
> replacement BIOS chip since the old one has died, or gotten corrupted.
> I assume you didn't try to 'Flash' the BIOS recently (power failure in
> the middle of flashing the BIOS will do this most of the time)?
>
> If it's under warranty take it back. If it isn't, you need a replacement
> BIOS chip (normally from the motherboard manufacturer) and someone with
> the tools/experience to fit it. Or you could change the motherboard
>
> --
> GSV Three Minds in a Can
> Outgoing Msgs are Turing Tested,and indistinguishable from human typing.

binapusat wrote:

> oh....last night I acquire the problem, it's lost CMOS battery, I had
> replacement with new one but isn't success. It's still appear same
> problem.
>


Like someone said, get the bios flash utility and the bios file from the
manufacturer, copy them on a bootable dos floppy and insert it into the
machine and then boot it. Hopefully it will boot off that floppy and let
you run the bios flash program.
--

Stacey