Checksum Error ?

[binapusat]

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

 

[Stacey]

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

 

[binapusat]

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

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

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

 

[Robert Redelmeier]

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

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

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.

 

[Robert Redelmeier]

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

 

[Stacey]

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?

 

[binapusat]

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.

 

[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.

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.

 

[GSV Three Minds in a Can]

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.

A dead CMOS battery could give you boot problems, and maybe bleating
about corrupt CMOS RAM data (which a 'clear cmos' would fix), however it
should not give you BIOS checksum errors .. the BIOS is in Flash memory,
and holds its value with no power at all (until/unless one of the memory
cells fails).

 

[binapusat]

Oke...Thank's for every advices.

I will try to fixed it by flash BIOS, if appear same problem, I hope you are
not bored with my unknown something.

Best Regards


Rudi Harsono

 

[Sean Ridge]

Oke...Thank's for every advices.

I will try to fixed it by flash BIOS, if appear same problem, I hope you are
not bored with my unknown something.

Best Regards

I got that same error message after updating the bios on my Abit IC7
once and all I had to do was go into the bios and set my usual
settings and then save them. After that I never got the checksum error
message again.