On Monday 16 September 2002 07:47 pm, you wrote: > Might be the battery. > Roly > On Sun, 15 Sep 2002 20:25:44 -0700 > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has anyone seen this error before? I built my Linux box about 6 months > > ago but used old drive I had.Its a Chaintech motherboard,950 AMD,320 > > ram.I,ve been useing mandrake on it since day one lately run each of > > the beta,s it,s locked up a few times .Yesterday it was acting up and > > knowing final 9.0 was due out I bought a new maxtor H/D and was > > loading rc2 and it went down.Now I can,t do anything not even bring up > > the bio as soon a I turn it on this is the error.BIO ROM CHECKSUM > > ERROR then media disk but I couldn,t add anything can,t bring up > > bio.I,ve never had it happen to me and sure wouldn,t expected it all > > at once but could this be a battery??? JOE
Yup, change your battery. Exact error that I got with an old pc chips board when the (really hard to find) TI clock/battery combo went belly up. The clock/battery cost more than the mobo was worth, so I'm careful to never buy a board that uses one of those, again. e.
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