bios rom checksum error

[fir3wir3]

getting this w/ my new m7mia biostar board. Any solutions or is it just bad?

brand new out of the box...

error happens the minute I turn on the power

 

[Asif]

check to make sure the bios chip is seated real good, may have either not been installed good or loosened during shipment

worth a look anyways

 

[WarCon]

I've seen that with bad cmos batteries, and you might check if the cmos clear jumper is on right.

But definately might be bad too! Just a few more things to try.

 

[WarCon]

Hey hook me up with the thread to your systems you have for sale too. I might have someone in the near future wanting one.

 

[DARRIN]

Does it not give you the option to continue? Then load fail safe settings.

 

[DARRIN]

You could also try to go ahead and flash the bios.

 

[Askalon]

FYI: I had this same problem right after I installed new ram. Try different ram. As soon as I took it out, the system ran fine.

 

[wildwolf]

I was having the same problem, and Justin was trying to help me also trouble shoot it when he got the same error. I'm not sure if he had all the symptoms I had, so I'll enlighten the rest as to what happened to me, and maybe y'all can come up with some other ideas.

After receiving the error, and it stated it would continue with loading defaults, give the system 3-8 seconds, and it would turn screen black. No response then until cutting power (switch wouldn't do it), waiting a few seconds, and trying again.

Tried three sticks of RAM (2-infineon, 64MB each, and one 128MB Micron). Neither would change the outcome.

I could get into the BIOS, and attempt to load defaults, and...same thing, it'd even lock when staring at the BIOS screen.

It was too late (I had already shipped board back to the seller for a replacement) for me to try looking at the BIOS chip itself, and seeing it could have been reseated. That might have some merit, I don't know. However, I know that I tried all that I could think of, and nothing worked. Even reseated CPU twice (had no other CPU to use to test).

Any more ideas that could be tried?