Looks like Paul tracked down the proper tool for you. If it fails however,
it's time to replace the board.


"Paul" wrote in message
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wrote:

Hello

Here's my BIOs query for you wonderful fixit people:
A week prior to the checksum message described below my PC started up
with an extra and unusual message, something along the
lines of: "Primary Bios fail, now booting using secondary BIOS.." Of
course I shoud have got help then, but I figured as
long as everything eventually booted, why bother?

After about 7 or so boots like this I got a dreaded checksum error
message and could not access anything besides the floppy
drive. A "fundi" told me to flash the BIOS, but I've struggled finding
the correct one. Usually the ones I did try either
froze up everything or did not work at all. I downloaded most of the
flash utilities from a jetway site.

And unfortunately the Motherboard Utility CD has a flasher for an
Amibios chip. Aarrgh!!

Please, please put me one the trail of a flasher that works, or any
advice to help my ailing PC!

Thanks

Flipflop.




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CPU : AMD Athlon 2000 xp
MotherBoard: Gigabyte GA-7VAX REV1.2, K7 Triton 400, FSB333
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First startup screen:
GA-622-32C VGA BIOS rev2.2 Gigabyte VGA Bios
32MB ram AGP4X
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Second screen:
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0 Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software
Inc

BIOS ROM checksum error

Detecting floppy drive A media

Drive media is: 1.44 MB

Remove disks or other media
Press any key to restart

Is this your motherboard ? The BIOS is associated with the motherboard,
and the GA-7VAX is on the Gigabyte site.

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard...OS_GA-7VAX.htm

The download from that page is self-extracting - double-click to
extract it. Inside is a flasher program "flash879", the BIOS
file "7vax.f13" of size 262144 bytes, and the command syntax is
shown in autoexec.bat as "flash879 7vax.f13".

You can get a dowhloadable manual from here. PDF page 64
describes the options for flashing the BIOS. This is a
pretty big download (8MB). Basically, you can make a DOS floppy
boot disk, boot from the floppy, and with the flash879.exe
and 7vax.f13 files copied onto the floppy, execute the
"flash879 7vax.f13" command from the prompt.

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard...al_GA-7VAX.htm

If you still have the paper copy of the user manual, the
procedure should be documented in there as well.

HTH,
Paul