Corrupted bios or something else? HELP!

[Skooter]

I recently swapped a harddrive into my amd 1 ghz Tbird system..the motherboard is an iwill kk266 and it's got crucial pc133 cas2 ram....

I put the windows xp cd in immediately following the swap and booted the computer up, intended to format the drive and install windows (it was from another computer, had stuff on it.)

the comptuer failed to boot off the cd, and it gave me some error message. i popped the cd out, cleaned it, and rebooted.

upon rebooting, the computer wouldn't post, and at the bios screen it just says "bios checksum error" and prompts me to insert system disk media or something.

i'm wondering if the bios got corrupted or if the ram's bad or what. i have no idea how this happened or why it happened, as i didn't do anything odd or unusual. i've built and modified numerous computers, but have never run into this issue.

can i flash the bios or what? any ideas or advice are appreciated. thanks.

 

[mindwreck]

ur freaken me out.. ur system is the same as mine. ram cpu and Mobo..
anyways. I've never had problems with this mobo before. I HAve seen that checksum error before, but a simple push of the reset button fixed it. Try booting off a floopy boot disk. If that doesn't work then... i don;t know. Flashing is a last resort if its still messed up..

 

[Skooter]

it doesn't check the floppy before the post tho, does it?

and i tried resetting the cmos, didn't work.