Greetings,
Long time lurker, first time poster. I've searched these forums and found similar issues, but have had no luck fixing my particular issue.
So, 2 months ago I built a computer. Specs are in my profile so they should be visible? Anyway, everything was running fine, when one evening, when I powered up, the trouble began.
When I hit the power button, it beeped, a few lights came on, the fans kicked in, and then it crashed. It waited a few seconds, and then repeated (without me touching anything.) It cycled like this 5 or 6 times and then came to life. However, when it came to life, I got the following error:
Warning: MAIN BIOS CHECKSUM ERROR!
Retrieving recovery source from HPA.... HPA BIOS not available!!
Retrieving recovery source from the Backup BIOS... Done!
Writing BIOS Image.... xxxxK OK
So, frightened, I turned it off, and then back on. Same thing. It cycled a few times, and then brought me to this error.
It was late, I was tired, so I called it a night. The next evening, everything worked fine. Started up normally, the world was back to normal. However, the following night, it happened again.
So after some research, I thought there was a chance that it was my power supply. My brother brought his over, however the issue remained.
Tried removing the vid card, memory, etc, to isolate the problem, with no luck.
So I did some more research and decided to flash my motherboard with the latest software. It took me a while to figure out how to, but using a flash drive, I was eventually able to get into BIOS, and using Qflash, update to the latest version of my gigabyte motherboard.
So, I fired it up, and I thought I was laughing, as it did NOT cycle at the beginning. It went right through the BIOS, but then I hit another snag. The following error:
Loading Operating System ...
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
OK, so I put my Windows 7 CD back in and changed the boot order to boot from the cd drive first. Exact same error.
Thinking maybe a power surge fried my motherboard (we get power failures here frequently) (and I didn't have a surge protector at the time)
I picked up a new one (same model) and installed it, however the same damn error reared it's ugly head.
So here I stand, with a 2 month old system and a free weekend I had planned on playing Call of Duty with, but will be stuck pulling my hair out instead. I'm heading out for the night, but will be back here first thing in the morning. If you have any advice, I greatly appreciate it, and will be able to respond tomorrow morning.
Thanks in advance, and this is a great forum by the way.
-Mike
Long time lurker, first time poster. I've searched these forums and found similar issues, but have had no luck fixing my particular issue.
So, 2 months ago I built a computer. Specs are in my profile so they should be visible? Anyway, everything was running fine, when one evening, when I powered up, the trouble began.
When I hit the power button, it beeped, a few lights came on, the fans kicked in, and then it crashed. It waited a few seconds, and then repeated (without me touching anything.) It cycled like this 5 or 6 times and then came to life. However, when it came to life, I got the following error:
Warning: MAIN BIOS CHECKSUM ERROR!
Retrieving recovery source from HPA.... HPA BIOS not available!!
Retrieving recovery source from the Backup BIOS... Done!
Writing BIOS Image.... xxxxK OK
So, frightened, I turned it off, and then back on. Same thing. It cycled a few times, and then brought me to this error.
It was late, I was tired, so I called it a night. The next evening, everything worked fine. Started up normally, the world was back to normal. However, the following night, it happened again.
So after some research, I thought there was a chance that it was my power supply. My brother brought his over, however the issue remained.
Tried removing the vid card, memory, etc, to isolate the problem, with no luck.
So I did some more research and decided to flash my motherboard with the latest software. It took me a while to figure out how to, but using a flash drive, I was eventually able to get into BIOS, and using Qflash, update to the latest version of my gigabyte motherboard.
So, I fired it up, and I thought I was laughing, as it did NOT cycle at the beginning. It went right through the BIOS, but then I hit another snag. The following error:
Loading Operating System ...
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
OK, so I put my Windows 7 CD back in and changed the boot order to boot from the cd drive first. Exact same error.
Thinking maybe a power surge fried my motherboard (we get power failures here frequently) (and I didn't have a surge protector at the time)
I picked up a new one (same model) and installed it, however the same damn error reared it's ugly head.
So here I stand, with a 2 month old system and a free weekend I had planned on playing Call of Duty with, but will be stuck pulling my hair out instead. I'm heading out for the night, but will be back here first thing in the morning. If you have any advice, I greatly appreciate it, and will be able to respond tomorrow morning.
Thanks in advance, and this is a great forum by the way.
-Mike