Boot up problems , please help !

[nitro237]

whenever it starts to boot up , right after the video card info shows , it says

"BIOS ROM checksum error"

and under that


"Detecting floppy drive A media ...
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER"

and makes a buzzing sound and stops bootup .

What could be causing this ?

It's a Soyo VIA motherboard ( about 2 weeks old)
PIII 667
128 meg PC 133
TNT 2U


Thanks .

 

[BFG10K]

Do you accidently have a non-boot floppy in the drive? Take it out if you do.

Also try to boot up off a rescue disk.

 

[Danlz]

After you follow BFG10K's recommendation and still no joy: go in the bios and either turn off floppy seek, or change boot sequence to C drive in front of the string. Kinda shoot'n blind here, but did it ever boot for you?

 

[nitro237]

no , it will not boot for enough to get into the bios .

 

[Danlz]

progress...and BFG10K jump in here too...the last time I got a CHK SUM ERROR was from some bad (generic) ram. If you have any ram laying around it would be good idea to change it. Smells like you're not even getting a post of your drives, right?

 

[RM1]

Try this:

I think it is a "ACTIVE" state problem. Currently the error message indicates that your primary partition is "INACTIVE".

Here's what to do:

Use a boot disk, and have FDISK.EXE in it. Run Fdisk and view (Option 4, I think) the partitions. The primary partition must have a "A" or "ACTIVE". If not, it won't boot. Set it to active.