bios checksum errors

[andersontd]

One of the first things I do when I get a new motherboard is the bios adjustments, one of those adjustments is "no errors".

For some reason I put "all errors" a few minutes ago and when I tried to boot it said "checksum errors load defaults".

I have bp6 with a 192 megs of ram and a pair of 366's running at 550.

I have heard checksum errors deal with ram, so what I am wondering is if anyone knows of any good utilities to diagnose ram.

This may be a silly question, but would it have to do with my cmos battery going dead?

Any help would a appreciated.

[Jeff7]

Might be the battery. I've heard of that causing checksum errors. I fixed a checksum error in the past by flashing the BIOS, but that one was slightly damaged by a power surge.

Try this utility ( www.simmtester.com (http://www.simmtester.com) ) to check the memory. It is a memory stress tester that works rather nicely.

[fvay]

if the battery is dead, mobo wont even post. checksum error aint just the ram. i ve had it for setting wrong multiplier

[wtp]

uhm.. it's either your battery is low, or you have just taken power from your mobo. This happened to me because the CMOS lost it's memory. Happened after i unplugged the mobo for a quite long time. Uhm... i think it's the battery. Or make sure you have your jumper shorted on NORMAL than CLEAR.

wtp

[andersontd]

Thanks guys you've been very helpful. Very useful utility I checked my ram and it passed all of the tests.

Yeah I had my board out of the case for a couple hours and the battery being weak was the problem.

I replaced a cap and now she runs great in win2k (smp), very stable, love it!!!

Now I just got to wait for the liveware update for my live value.

[wtp]

NO PROBLEMO. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

WTP