Is my motherboard fried???

[gummiely]

I just got my new MSI K7T Pro 2 mobo, put in video card, ram, and floppy. Upon powering on, i got a constant beeping sound, along with this:

AWARD Boot Block Bios
BIOS ROM Checksum Error

Insert floppy disk media
Floppy disk error

What is this? I tried clearing the cmos (jumper) and i actually went to the extent of replacing the battery.. and still nothing. Any thoughts guys?

 

[kind-of-blue]

Sounds like a bad BIOS rom. Check to make sure its securly in place and see if you can get into CMOS after powering up. If you can enter CMOS then it might be a miswired IDE cable. Check to make sure your floppy cable is pluged in correctly as well as your primary and secondary cables. If that doesn't work you probably need to RMA for a new motherboard.

 

[Lord Evermore]

Try clearing the CMOS as well. There should be a jumper on the motherboard, you'd do something like shorting pins 2 and 3 on the jumper block for 10 seconds, then put the jumper back on 1 and 2. This clears the CMOS memory. I'm not sure if it will actually help in this, but occasionally I've gotten an error when first booting a system, and this fixed it. Your problem may in fact be a real corrupted BIOS.

 

[gummiely]

hmm... corrupted bios. i suspected as much. i'm also think i may have killed it with generic ram (i forgot to mention before). I was able to boot up once, but then after i changed hdd and ram, i the error. well.. it's too late now. i decided to trade it in for an Epox ep8kta2 mobo. should be getting it this week. now i'm wondering if i should go ahead and risk ordering some generic Syncmax ram for $90 or pay double for micron. hmmm....

 

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