My BIOS corrupted on me?!

Hey guys,

I was doing some case-feng-shui work, moving my cables around for better air flow and what not. Took out the ata100 cable on the second channel and put in a ata66 because win2k kept not showing my HP 8x burner when it was running on ata66...anyways put it all back together case on etc. and I push the power button....

Bios rom checksum error(!)

So, I jumped on my mom's box, got on the net got the KVTA2AA4.bin bios to flash it and AWDFLASH.exe proggie, and made a 98 boot disk. Well, I put the disk in and it says NTLDR is missing! I checked my win2k cd and lo and behold there was a NTLDR file on there, but...I can't get it to work! I could really use your guys' help.

PS. I do have a disk with the default bios, also if that helps

I got the same board as yours and same problem : bios check sum error after each time I tried to clean the bios by short JP5 and reboot. I updated bios to 2aa4 now, doesn't matter,Winme and Win2K won't install-Always some kind of different windows protection error or corrupted files along the way. It's a dead computer now.

I checked VIA forums and seems VIA chips are causing all kinds of problems aross all kinds of mobos. there are major flaws in VIA KT133 chipsets.

I hate Anandtech.com now since I have read many of their review articles praising Via motherboards and boasting stability etc..before I go out and get this soyo in to build around. I would like to see one of the reviewers sit in front of my computer and install the damn OS for me!

Good luck! I am thinking seriously going back to Intel esp. Piiis

I fixed it! Somehow, some weird stuff was going on with the IDE cables/channels and it was creating the corrupted bios message. Fortunately, all I had to do was put everything back the way it was before and put, and put in a different secondary channel cable. I wonder if that's a known bug or something