If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Soyo SY6BA+100 MB question
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 |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:57:13 -0500, "George" wrote:
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 |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:57:13 -0500, "George" wrote:
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. |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
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 "kony" wrote in message ... 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. |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Cable Modem Question | Dan Rather | General | 1 | October 10th 06 12:12 PM |
newbie question about dvd-r/cd-r | harrypotter | General | 11 | January 11th 04 03:52 AM |
Memory Question - outcome of exceeding the memory limits of a machine. | John B. | General | 4 | November 4th 03 12:25 PM |
Question about LCD and CRT monitors (Samsung variety) | Aaron Chan | General | 3 | October 7th 03 02:04 PM |
Memory question for Intel 865PERL | grendel | General | 1 | July 7th 03 04:56 AM |