my friend have an old Pc with a Atrend Atc 6310v . when i turn it on a
text is shown like this:
"award bois blocked" and checksum error. i can boot this computer only
with award bootable Floppy to flash it. could you please tell me how i
can get Flash file and Flasher Program to solve my friend's problem?
First, disconnect AC power, pull the battery for 10 minutes
to clear CMOS and while battery is out, check it's voltage
as it may be near dead (causing problem). If you can't
check the voltage you might consider getting a new battery,
though I can't be sure that's the problem but such batteries
are cheap, usually about $1.50 a drugstore if you didn't
have a spare already (some automobile remote controls also
take similar or same size battery, as well as other misc
products).
Make sure the battery stays out for several minutes or use
the clear-CMOS jumper (also while AC is disconnected).
Unless the board was pulled out for some reason or the
system was changed, a board won't generally just "loose"
it's bios unless there is some other problem. Unless you
had a situation not mentioned, flashing the bios may not be
needed or might only be a momentary fix then the original
problem causes it to do same thing again.
When system first initializes, it won't be able to execute
bios if it's severely instable too. A borderline
,progressively failing motherboard or PSU can also cause
this, or if the heatsink weren't on and CPU quickly
overheated it could do similarly. Inspect system,
especially the capacitors on that (old, generic branded)
motherboard.
