Bios Rom checksum error

Hot-swapping and Boot-Block flash & Boot block flash and floppy support
wonderboy
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I've got a pretty heavy problem
When I bootup my computer
All the screen shows is:
"Award Bios Boot block v1.0"
"Bios ROM checksum error"
"Detecting floppy drive a: media"
And an endless
"insert system disk"

I've read all the faq's their are about this problem
I've tried several different bootdisk.
But none will boot, it only reads the floppy drive a short moment
then replies "insert system disk"
I have no idéer about what could be wrong.

Please help me!
ajzchips
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Un-overclocking your Celeron could help you with your problem...
wonderboy
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It's not my celeron I experience the problems with
it's a AMD Athlon 1Ghz..

The mobo is a Epox 8K9A3
NickS
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wonderboy wrote:It's not my celeron I experience the problems with
it's a AMD Athlon 1Ghz..
Cpu:
Intel P3 Celeron 940
Geforce 2 200MX 32Mb
19" AOC
Can you slow down the Athlon ?
NickS
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wonderboy wrote:how?
can't get into the bios setup screen..
i don't believe it uses the old jumper clocking system.. =/
If it uses auto clock as well as auto multiplier, that could be a problem. I do like my Soltek...
What did you do last before the BIOS corruption message came up ? Usually that means either the bus is running too fast and data is getting corrupted, or someone flashed the wrong BIOS, or a virus trashed the BIOS.
Goofy
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Hi,

I have exactly the same problem!!
About six months ago my computer suddenly stopped booting complaining about some sort of 'bios checksum error'????
I tried a reset and all worked well again. But then it stopped booting again and again and I decided to flash the bios, no problem, just resetting til it started normally, enter setup, flash utility and that's that: all worked well again. For six months.... and then.... it started all over again and I haven't got a clue why! :?

It boots, says:

award bootblock bios v1.0
bios checksum error
floppy drive detected etc.

resetting doesn't help anymore! :evil:
No system disk works, it only wants to boot awdflash.exe but if I copy awdflash and the proper .bin file to a system floppy it boots awdflash and then my monitor turns off or sometimes there are all kinds of coloured blocks on my screen. :?: :?:

Can anyone tell me what is the cause of this problem,

system:

chaintech motherboard 7AIV0
128 MB RAM
Duron 900
Geforce 4 MX
30 G HD
CDROMv 52 speed

No hardware changes lately, no overclocking, nothing changed in setup

I have disconnected one by one every device and tried different RAM modules but nothing works, checksum error is still there.

I hope someone knows what to do next?

Greetz



Goofy
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Try changing the CPU too and then reflashing the BIOS.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
Goofy
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Thanx for the reply but changing the CPU is a problem since I have no CPU to change with :lol:
Looking around on your forum I discovered some links to pages with other versions of awdflash.exe, I tried v 7.63 and its boots the flash utility without any strange blocks ont he screen!!
But.... now it claims it can't find the 'source file' :?: :?:
I checked for mistyping the .bin but all is correct,
what can be the problem now???
ajzchips
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Make sure the read-only file attribute isn't set.
ar@gon
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hi goofy

i have similar problem to your pc.. i was flushing wrong bios and
i have exactly the same message appear on my pc and wont read anything i tried update bios from hp and didnt work :oops:

then i find my motherboard company is FIC and i download bios from them but either i am doing some mistake somewhere, i cant flash the rom.

notes was saying abaut add this line to autoexec.bat file
example :
vl-603, award BIOS 1.14in12.bin,flash utility flash613.exe:
Add the following line to autoexec.bat
flash613 114in12.bin/py/sn

i cant see autoexec file or dont know where to download from..i am going mad here ..have you got any idea what this note asking to do? or anybody understand and explain to me i will be very happy man :idea:

ps: i tried uniflash but didt work or i didint do the right way!
Goofy
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ajzchips wrote:Make sure the read-only file attribute isn't set.
Thanxx , but yes, I'm sure it isn't set, I checked it and the spelling etc. several times. :)

PS: I mailed to chaintech 3 times about this but haven't had any respons yet. :cry:
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Rename the file to Bios.bin and try again !
Goofy
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Thanx, but didn't work: "source file not found".
Is it possible that I use the wrong version of awdflash?
When the computer boots is says: award bootblock bios v1.0,
should I try to find v1.0 of awdflash perhaps?


greetz
Goofy
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No.
a) Awdflash v1.0 does not exist.
b) Award BootBlock BIOS is always v1.0
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
UniFlash - Flash anything anywhere
Goofy
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Oke, so no awdflash v1.0 or something but about my other question: was the 'no' the answer or do I need a specific version of awdflash?
So far I tried several version of the flash-utilities (7.5 - 7.66) but I have to rename them to awdflash.exe to have the computer to load them and none works. :cry:
By the way, I also tried all awdflash.exe programs I could find so far but they didn't work either.
I feel a little stupid by now :cry: What the hell am I doing wrong :?:


Greetz


Goofy
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