Help! Iwil KA-266 -R is borked

[SaintJC]

I built a sysytem around the Iwill KA-266-R, and the first time I boot up, CPU is recognized. CD-ROM as well, but hard drive not (later I realized I had forgotten to plug in the hard drive's molex connector).

I reboot, and this time it says Bios Checksum error, and prompts me to insert a boot disk of some sort.

I go to the Iwill site (using a different computer) , and download a bios update disk...I put that on a 3.5" floppy, reboot, put it in, and it loads, but when it reaches the intial bios update screen, it freezes and does not load any longer.

I cannot get any further than this screen.

Any ideas? I tried clearing the CMOS, but it didn't work.

 

[kursplat]

can you get into the bios setup at all ? if so try loading the defaults.
good luck

 

[SaintJC]

Got it working.

It was jumpered for 133 and I was running a Duron 800.

 

[kursplat]

well nothin like being optimistic...
have fun
soyo dragon+
athlon 1500+ @1500 mhz (10x150 fsb)
using the onboard sound and nic
gforce 2 mx400
384 mb ddr sdram

 

[SaintJC]

nope.

I got it booting, but I can't install an OS.

Win2k and XP just freeze at various stages on the install.

 

[kursplat]

you sure it's not the cd-rom ?

 

[SaintJC]

hmmm

I'll replace it and see.