CMOS Checksum Error

Thread View: comp.windows.misc

3 messages

[T] Back to Threads [V] Tree View [G] Group Articles

3 total messages Started by Gary Purvis Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00

#1515

Author: Gary Purvis
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1998 00:00

11 lines
1068 bytes

A friend of mine is running a P233 with Win98 and American Megatrends
BIOS. Whenever the pc is hard booted, it recognizes the HDD, CD, etc,
then says 'CMOS Checksum Error - Press F1 to Continue' . Once booted up
it seems to work fine, except that the date has to be reset. Can anybody
suggest a reason for this annoying little fault?

BTW.. the CMOS battery has been replaced.
-- 
Gary Purvis

<gary@saints1.demon.co.uk>

Re: CMOS Checksum Error

#1513

Author: Duncan Thomas
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:00

18 lines
1567 bytes

In article <NdrUiHAoHa91EwFF@saints1.demon.co.uk>, Gary Purvis
<gary@saints1.demon.co.uk> writes
>A friend of mine is running a P233 with Win98 and American Megatrends
>BIOS. Whenever the pc is hard booted, it recognizes the HDD, CD, etc,
>then says 'CMOS Checksum Error - Press F1 to Continue' . Once booted up
>it seems to work fine, except that the date has to be reset. Can anybody
>suggest a reason for this annoying little fault?
>
>BTW.. the CMOS battery has been replaced.

You could try just going into bios setup, and selecting 'save settings'.
This somethings fixes this problem. Dunno why.
-- 
Duncan Thomas A.K.A 'Pedagathon'.
Trains stop at trainstations, Buses stop at busstations, On my desk is a
workstation
Mailto:dunc@cornerpub.com     http://new-house.demon.co.uk
I.C.Q 6623886          MHM 21x14        ACC# 938146

Re: CMOS Checksum Error

#1514

Author: Kev Cross
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:00

28 lines
1856 bytes

I have just had this problem with one of my PC's, also with an American
Megatrends motherboard.  Mine was self induced thou; I was trying to patch
the motherboard bios on a SuperMicro P55MMA motherboard to fix a boot
problem with Linux and I got the wrong one... oops.  I did manage to
recover it to the correct version after a bit of buggering around.

If just reseting the CMOS setting does not work (pay particular attention
to the plug and play bios option in Advanced settings), you may have to go
to the motherboard manufacturer and download a new version of the bios. 
Then follow the instructions to flashing the motherboard.

HTH
Kev

Gary Purvis <gary@saints1.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<NdrUiHAoHa91EwFF@saints1.demon.co.uk>...
> A friend of mine is running a P233 with Win98 and American Megatrends
> BIOS. Whenever the pc is hard booted, it recognizes the HDD, CD, etc,
> then says 'CMOS Checksum Error - Press F1 to Continue' . Once booted up
> it seems to work fine, except that the date has to be reset. Can anybody
> suggest a reason for this annoying little fault?
> 
> BTW.. the CMOS battery has been replaced.
> -- 
> Gary Purvis
> 
> <gary@saints1.demon.co.uk>
>

Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads