Award Boot Block Bios v1.0, BIOS rom checksum error

Hello

Here's my BIOs query for you wonderful fixit people:
A week prior to the checksum message described below my PC started up
with an extra and unusual message, something along the
lines of: "Primary Bios fail, now booting using secondary BIOS.." Of
course I shoud have got help then, but I figured as
long as everything eventually booted, why bother?

After about 7 or so boots like this I got a dreaded checksum error
message and could not access anything besides the floppy
drive. A "fundi" told me to flash the BIOS, but I've struggled finding
the correct one. Usually the ones I did try either
froze up everything or did not work at all. I downloaded most of the
flash utilities from a jetway site.

And unfortunately the Motherboard Utility CD has a flasher for an
Amibios chip. Aarrgh!!

Please, please put me one the trail of a flasher that works, or any
advice to help my ailing PC!

Thanks

Flipflop.




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CPU : AMD Athlon 2000 xp
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-7VAX REV1.2, K7 Triton 400, FSB333
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First startup screen:
GA-622-32C VGA BIOS rev2.2 Gigabyte VGA Bios
32MB ram AGP4X
---------------------------------
Second screen:
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0 Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software
Inc

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting floppy drive A media

Drive media is: 1.44 MB

Remove disks or other media
Press any key to restart

First thing is change the m/b battery.

--
Kenny Cargill

"Flip" wrote in message
...
Hello

Here's my BIOs query for you wonderful fixit people:
A week prior to the checksum message described below my PC started up
with an extra and unusual message, something along the
lines of: "Primary Bios fail, now booting using secondary BIOS.." Of
course I shoud have got help then, but I figured as
long as everything eventually booted, why bother?

After about 7 or so boots like this I got a dreaded checksum error
message and could not access anything besides the floppy
drive. A "fundi" told me to flash the BIOS, but I've struggled finding
the correct one. Usually the ones I did try either
froze up everything or did not work at all. I downloaded most of the
flash utilities from a jetway site.

And unfortunately the Motherboard Utility CD has a flasher for an
Amibios chip. Aarrgh!!

Please, please put me one the trail of a flasher that works, or any
advice to help my ailing PC!

Thanks

Flipflop.




-----------------------
CPU : AMD Athlon 2000 xp
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-7VAX REV1.2, K7 Triton 400, FSB333
-----------------------------
First startup screen:
GA-622-32C VGA BIOS rev2.2 Gigabyte VGA Bios
32MB ram AGP4X
---------------------------------
Second screen:
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0 Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software
Inc

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting floppy drive A media

Drive media is: 1.44 MB

Remove disks or other media
Press any key to restart

Try this flash utility http://www.uniflash.org/ . I used this just
recently on a board with exactly the same symptoms as yours....after
trying the standard Award utilities that come with the Gigabyte bios
files I gave Uniflash a go and it worked perfectly whereas the award
ones didn't...Good luck



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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:26:58 +0200, Flip
wrote:

Hello

Here's my BIOs query for you wonderful fixit people:
A week prior to the checksum message described below my PC started up
with an extra and unusual message, something along the
lines of: "Primary Bios fail, now booting using secondary BIOS.." Of
course I shoud have got help then, but I figured as
long as everything eventually booted, why bother?

After about 7 or so boots like this I got a dreaded checksum error
message and could not access anything besides the floppy
drive. A "fundi" told me to flash the BIOS, but I've struggled finding
the correct one. Usually the ones I did try either
froze up everything or did not work at all. I downloaded most of the
flash utilities from a jetway site.

And unfortunately the Motherboard Utility CD has a flasher for an
Amibios chip. Aarrgh!!

Please, please put me one the trail of a flasher that works, or any
advice to help my ailing PC!

Thanks

Flipflop.




-----------------------
CPU : AMD Athlon 2000 xp
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-7VAX REV1.2, K7 Triton 400, FSB333
-----------------------------
First startup screen:
GA-622-32C VGA BIOS rev2.2 Gigabyte VGA Bios
32MB ram AGP4X
---------------------------------
Second screen:
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0 Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software
Inc

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting floppy drive A media

Drive media is: 1.44 MB

Remove disks or other media
Press any key to restart