scotty71 Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 This is basically a question of why as opposed to what's wrong. I'll try not to ramble. Edit... Sorry, but I did...I think. Built a computer in 2005. It lasted till I think 2010 when it started to random reboot. On third time, it wouldn't post and gave me a bios rom checksum error. I pulled out all unneeded components to no avail. New battery, Swapped memory banks, used just 1 module and still just the checksum error. I did manage after many tries switching modules around to get it to boot to cd and run memtest. It passed. Upon reboot, however, the checksum error. So I put computer away and it stayed there till couple months ago when I dragged it out. I ordered a new bios chip for my board and put it in. Computer posted and I went through the bios settings and as I changed screens, it was if someone cloned the top left of screen down to bottom right, text was all cloned and garbled. I rebooted, changed boot order to floppy and flashed the bios with a .bin file I downloaded directly from Abit. It appeared to be successful. I connected the Sata drive and it booted into windows and I let it set for about an 1HR. Checked on computer and it had locked up. rebooted to cd and ran memtest. It went through 2 passes and no errors. Something happened in life and computer got pushed into background. Couple weeks ago I got back on it. Went to boot and got bios rom checksum error keyboard error or no keyboard detected Detecting Floppy Drive A media Drive A error. System Halt Would do nothing else. So I did what I should have done long time ago. I bought a Cheap 2GB kit of ddr ram and installed it. Computer posted, I went into bios and changed boot sequence to HDD and it booted right into windows no problem. I should note this is the 2nd set of Corsair value ram to go bad in this system. Question is why did ram check as ok, but cause this much trouble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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