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Anonymous   06-26-2001 at 11:54:55 PM

Hi guys,

I really need your expertise. Listen up:

I have encountered a problem with my kt7a-raid board and this time I have read the manual carefully !!;)

I get:
"Award Bootblock Bios v.1.0

Bios Rom checksum error

Dectecting floppy drive A media
Insert system disk and press return"

What does this mean? I boot up again, after reset bios, but after a while my system freezes and
lots of bios stuff is written all over the screen ???

I have taken my harddrive, floppy and cd-rom drive and put into a new tower and with the same cpu, another kt7a-raid board and the above error happens???
Is it because I have to install it all again eventhough it is the same
system???

Please help as I´m anxious to get going!!!
Thanks in advance
pete

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FatBurger   06-27-2001 at 12:06:49 AM
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Make sure your power and info cables are plugged into the floppy drive correctly, and there's no disk in the drive.

And check your startup devices in the BIOS.

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Tormented   06-27-2001 at 08:00:41 AM
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Make an ACTIVE partition on the hard drive with fdisk.

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walkr   06-27-2001 at 09:32:45 AM
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this could be caused by two different things:
1: the Cmos Battery is no good, try to replace it should fix the problem.
2:Bios has gone bad, to fix this you need to make a boot disk and flash your bios but you need to make a batch file to the floppy so that it runs and does not need any in put from you, because there is no keyboard control.

if this doesn't work u might need a new motherboard.

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walkr   06-27-2001 at 09:36:44 AM
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Also try running it with the CDrom and floppy disconected, and take out any pci cards, if it works ok put one back at a time.

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FatBurger   06-27-2001 at 06:08:42 PM
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And if that's not enough homework, we can assign you some more.

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