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


Thanks Erick, bu that's not exactly what I want to do. Finances are low,
when I had a job a 5 months ago I splashed out R400 (about $70) on a
Thermal take fan for the CPU. So I admit I'm rather reluctant to
purchase a new or risk a 2nd hand board.

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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