Soyo SY6BA+100 MB question

[George]

I took a SY6BA+100 MB out of service on my PC that has been working fine and
it has been in an ESD bag for about a month before my daughter's PC failed.
I figured since I was working on her PC anyway I might as well install this
Soyo MB as it is better than what she had. Anyway, on boot I am getting a
BIOS checksum failure...it seems highly unlikely that the BIOS became
"corrupted" while sitting for a month...any ideas? I don't want to reflash
the BIOS if unnecessary (especially before I get the system stable).

TIA
George

 

[JT]

I took a SY6BA+100 MB out of service on my PC that has been working fine and
it has been in an ESD bag for about a month before my daughter's PC failed.
I figured since I was working on her PC anyway I might as well install this
Soyo MB as it is better than what she had. Anyway, on boot I am getting a
BIOS checksum failure...it seems highly unlikely that the BIOS became
"corrupted" while sitting for a month...any ideas? I don't want to reflash
the BIOS if unnecessary (especially before I get the system stable).

TIA
George

The checksum is for the BIOS settings stored in CMOS ram. The little
battery is probably needs replaced. Go in and set your CMOS settings (after
replacing battery) and all should be well.

JT

 

[kony]

I took a SY6BA+100 MB out of service on my PC that has been working fine and
it has been in an ESD bag for about a month before my daughter's PC failed.
I figured since I was working on her PC anyway I might as well install this
Soyo MB as it is better than what she had. Anyway, on boot I am getting a
BIOS checksum failure...it seems highly unlikely that the BIOS became
"corrupted" while sitting for a month...any ideas? I don't want to reflash
the BIOS if unnecessary (especially before I get the system stable).

TIA
George

The bios might've been corrupted prior to putting in the bag, or after
being taken out of the bag, but since it's POSTing it's probably not
corrupt.

Might be the battery, or simply that you have different components plugged
into it not. Enter the bios setup and (even if you don't change any
settings) save the settings. If it then continues to display the checksum
failure message then replace the battery. You might also remove the
battery and check it's voltage.

 

[George]

Just thought I'd add back to the knowledge base...

I did replace the battery w/o any effect. In addition to the checksum
error, the PC wouldn't recognize any drives other than the floppy (even with
a safe mode reboot w/CDROM support it wouldn't detect any CDROM drives or
hard drives). Anyway, I DID decide to reflash the BIOS and have things
about 95-98% right at this time. (I still cannot move the boot drive, C:,
to the HPT370-controlled IDE ports like I had it previously and a Linksys
LNE-100TX NIC will keep it from booting -- I am thinking that at least the
HPT370 problem should go away once the Soyo website is up for me to download
a couple of drivers and I do have another NIC or two to try.)

Thanks (and I may be back)
George