ABit KT7A Bios Checksum Error, Insert Disk Into A: Drive?

[KillSwitch69]

Please, I need help! Ok, when I start up, that is what I get, could it be because I fried something? I didn't do any bios flashing and this is what I got after have recieved my mobo back from RMA, again. I don't even get the Post screen, I can boot off a boot disk, but thats it, can't access anything else. It also says something about an Award Bootlock on that screen.

System:
KT7A Mobo
800mhz Duron@ 800
Enhanced Mushkin cas 2-3-2 PC150 Ram
Maxtor 30gig HD
Leadtek Enhanced Geforce 2 GTS Pro 32mb
SB Live! X-gamer PCI Slot 3
D-Link NIC PCI Slot 4
Yamaha CDRW
DVD-Rom
Floppy Drive
300W Psu

Any Help would be appriceated

 

[roc]

My friend got the same error and this Durron chip was bad. Try a chip swap if that dosent work its a bad BIOS chip. I would bet on the CPU being the problem
Rocco..

 

[supraway]

This happens when you have an invalid setting in bios. As soon as you turn your computer's power on, press and hold the insert key, and it should bring you to bios. By pressing the insert key, it tells bios to use all default settings, and from there load optimized defaults. Try rebooting. It should work. If you couldn't get into bios the first time, give it more tries, holding insert BEFORE turning the power on, and so forth. If that doesn't work, just clear your bios.

 

[wild_andy_c]

roc (Jun 02, 2001 03:00 p.m.):
My friend got the same error and this Durron chip was bad. Try a chip swap if that dosent work its a bad BIOS chip. I would bet on the CPU being the problem
Rocco..

NO

Definatley a wrong setting. Like have you set the board at 133Mhz jumper defaulting for synchronous DRAM and FSB ?

 

[bdf24]

Yes from my own experiences and from what I have read on this board, This exact error can pop up for many reasons. I have gotten them when My PCI bus was running to fast everytime I would restart. Also when My computer locked up during a bios update. Other people seem to have gotten this error due to heat.

Your best bet is to clear the cmos and start fresh. If that doesnt work you can always try sticking a bios update on a bootable floppy and try and reflash the bios to see if it fixes it.

 

[ken257]

I have had the same thing happen to me before as a result of setting some things a little to aggresively. Clearing the cmos did not solve the problem, neither did backing off the settings that I had increased. What got the board working again was selecting the option to restore the default bios settings.

 

[dozier768]

i had the same problem with my soyo board it was due to my voltage every time i unplugged the system and rebooted it would post then freeze upon reboot it would say "bios checksum error insert disk into drive a" i upped the voltage and it worked fine after that. i also reflashed the bios just incase

 

[SickBoy]

I had a problem similar to this on a FIC PA2013 and they told me to do this:

1. Unseat CMOS battery
2. Take a piece of wire, strip it, and touch an end to each terminal, hold it for a second or two
3. Replace battery.

Worked pretty well. Otherwise you might wanna try a new CMOS battery, too.

SickBoy