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i updated my bios and get the checksum error. ok so i enter the bios and load the defaults and when i hit save and exit i hit yes and enter. the screen goes completely blank like it is sleeping. i power it down and tried restarting it with no success so i cleared the cmos. i get the checksum error and continued with loading windows instead of entering the bios. everything seemed to be fine. i then restarted my system and i got nothing but a blank screen after powering back on. clearing the cmos temporarily fixes the problem every time until i restart. i have tried many things in the bios setup but the screen goes blank every time i go to save and exit. this is getting very irritating and i would be very appreciative of any help.
thanks in advance.
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22 views and not one reply. please help me if you know of anything that could be causing this.

why is no one responding?
sorry if im not aloud to double post.

how old is the system? If more than 3 years it may be time to put in a fresh CMOS battery.

I guess most of the visitors are too shy to post a reply and may have the same problem. As we mods are human we have to eat and sleep at times.

my system is older than 3 years but after reflashing to the original bios everything is just fine so i know its not the battery. i have tried applying failsafe defaults which boots fine but i am having trouble figuring out which setting is causing it to hang after restarting. it is a First international am37L motherboard. i have 768 megs of ram and an athlon xp 2000 cpu. i guess it is just going to take a lot of time and trail and error to figure out which setting to disable.
thanks