corrupt bios

[smokewarlock]

i have a soyo board that when i boot says " bios rom checksum error" is there a way to reflash the bios without sending the chip back to the manufacture? i have award bios... and what is an autoexcut.bat file and how do i find it or make one? thanks for the help...

 

[DieHardware]

Did you try clearing CMOS with the PSU unplugged?

 

[egale]

If the bios is truly corrupt and clearing the bios does not reset it, the only solution is to replace the bios chips.

 

[Peter]

If it still says "BIOS ROM checksum error", then there's still some life left in it. Try the recovery procedures for whatever BIOS you have there (Phoenix/Award/AMI).

But before you do that: BIOS ROM checksum errors can also come from bad RAM. This because the BIOS program is unpacked from ROM to RAM, and the result in RAM is then checksummed. Try a known good DIMM first.

And of course, don't overclock.

 

[smokewarlock]

thanks all really appreciate the help....i have ordered a new bios chip after trying all suggestions..nothing worked... lolol guess i have to spend the 25 bucks for a replacement...oh well ...once again thanks for the assistance really appreciate it.