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Mads Hansen
Hi,
I just put together a system with a A7N8X-X motherboard - so far only
CPU, one block of RAM, and a 8x AGP card is installed, plus drives.
When I power up, all I get is "BIOS ROM checksum error", and then the
drive A lights up, and stays lit.
In about 1 out of 20 restarts, the computer will boot, recognizing the
CPU wrong, but detecting the correct amount of RAM, and the correct
hard disks.
It sometimes freezes here, but other times it is possible to enter
BIOS setup. I was able to set the clock, and save settings, but upon
reboot, I got "BIOS ROM checksum error" again.
In all other cases, the system has frozen after a few selections have
been made in the BIOS screens. Twice the display became garbled, with
random charcters all over.
I have tried clearing CMOS by removing the battery and moving the
relevant jumper, that doesn't help, but I guess that would only clear
BIOS RAM, not the ROM.
Is there anything to do apart from get a replacement board?
Any ideas will be apreciated!
Mads Hansen
I just put together a system with a A7N8X-X motherboard - so far only
CPU, one block of RAM, and a 8x AGP card is installed, plus drives.
When I power up, all I get is "BIOS ROM checksum error", and then the
drive A lights up, and stays lit.
In about 1 out of 20 restarts, the computer will boot, recognizing the
CPU wrong, but detecting the correct amount of RAM, and the correct
hard disks.
It sometimes freezes here, but other times it is possible to enter
BIOS setup. I was able to set the clock, and save settings, but upon
reboot, I got "BIOS ROM checksum error" again.
In all other cases, the system has frozen after a few selections have
been made in the BIOS screens. Twice the display became garbled, with
random charcters all over.
I have tried clearing CMOS by removing the battery and moving the
relevant jumper, that doesn't help, but I guess that would only clear
BIOS RAM, not the ROM.
Is there anything to do apart from get a replacement board?
Any ideas will be apreciated!
Mads Hansen