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I bought my new PC about a month ago and just received a floppy with
the latest BIOS on it (Award BIOS v5.3). I therefore phoned up my PC
manufacturer's technical support (they sent me the floppy in the first
place) and went through the whole flash process with them. Everything
seemed to go okay (they were no errors and the process completed) but
the PC will now longer boot. Instead, I it starts the BIOS BootBlock
program, displays the "BIOS ROM Checksum Error" and asks me to insert
a system disk. When I boot from the floppy, I can get back into the
Award Flash utility (AWFLxxxx) and DOS, but only the A:\ drive is
present. The PC manufacturers are sending out an engineer, but that's
not for a week. So in the meantime, I was wondering if there was
anything to do to rectify the situation. My questions are therefore:
1. What would cause the flash to fail in the first place? As I
mentioned above, the whole process seemed to go smoothly. I've flashed
other devices before (though never a BIOS), but all throught the
process, I was following instructions from technical support.
2. Is there are way I can recover from this, or should I just wait for
the engineer? I tried to reflash the BIOS, but it just hangs when it
gets to the flashing stage.
My apologies for not being very detailed, but I'm currently typing
this at work, so I haven't got all the information in front of me. I
think the motherboard is the MSI-6729 (Athlon XP 3000 processor).
Thanks in advance,
Oliver
I bought my new PC about a month ago and just received a floppy with
the latest BIOS on it (Award BIOS v5.3). I therefore phoned up my PC
manufacturer's technical support (they sent me the floppy in the first
place) and went through the whole flash process with them. Everything
seemed to go okay (they were no errors and the process completed) but
the PC will now longer boot. Instead, I it starts the BIOS BootBlock
program, displays the "BIOS ROM Checksum Error" and asks me to insert
a system disk. When I boot from the floppy, I can get back into the
Award Flash utility (AWFLxxxx) and DOS, but only the A:\ drive is
present. The PC manufacturers are sending out an engineer, but that's
not for a week. So in the meantime, I was wondering if there was
anything to do to rectify the situation. My questions are therefore:
1. What would cause the flash to fail in the first place? As I
mentioned above, the whole process seemed to go smoothly. I've flashed
other devices before (though never a BIOS), but all throught the
process, I was following instructions from technical support.
2. Is there are way I can recover from this, or should I just wait for
the engineer? I tried to reflash the BIOS, but it just hangs when it
gets to the flashing stage.
My apologies for not being very detailed, but I'm currently typing
this at work, so I haven't got all the information in front of me. I
think the motherboard is the MSI-6729 (Athlon XP 3000 processor).
Thanks in advance,
Oliver