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I have a problem with my BIOS I think

Motherboard Soyo K7ADA ,award bios

The problem is ,when I boot up my PC ,I get the BIOS checksum error ,etc....................

Please insert a system disk in drive A and press enter.

The trouble is ,no matter what disk I put in the drive the system just re-boots every 10 seconds ,even with the BIOS flash disk.

What's happening ,it's driving me crazy ,PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!

Cheers
Widdy

Maybe also bad CPU or bad CPU cooling or bad memory.

I always kept a check on CPU temp ,and it never got above 54 degrees ,no way of checking the memory as I don't know anyone with a DDR board ,and it's an expensive test to buy some more ram.

Something I forgot to mention (and the most important) ,everything was fine until I tried to install a pci / scsi card in the Motherboard ,all I got was a black screen with a flashing cursor in the bottom left corner ,I took out the card ,re-booted and the problem started.

Looking down the posts ,I see the mention of a similar problem ,and of trying a 720k boot disk ,maybe I should try this?.

Widdy

Tried the 720k boot disk ,no joy.

If I could find someone with the same BIOS chip ,could hot swapping the BIOS chips work?

I am really running out of ideas.

Cheers
Widdy