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bios rom checksum error

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wookiewoof

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I read some post here about this issue and I think It might have been a memory issue, but I'll ask


I was on a facebook game when my computer suddenly restarted and started to beep
continuously and gave me the bios rom checksum error. I pulled out battery and cleared the cmos and put in new battery and that didn't help. I tried booting from a system floppy with the award flash program on it and that went nowhere.

So tonight after the computer has sat for a few days, I disconnected all the hard drives/optical drives and pulled out the memory 1 at a time and still nothing worked and it also wouldn't show anything on monitor or even beep.

I tried with one memory chip at a time bank 1 only, nothing, put the chip that was in bank 3 into bank 1 by itself and nothing. Eventually, wound up with bank 1 and 3 reversed from what they were when the problem started. Power up..nothing.

So I tilt that computer back up vertical and check video connection, etc and power up and viola!, the computer suddenly posts, but of course goes nowhere cause everything is disconnected.

So I am getting around to reconnecting everything, but I am wondering what caused this behavior in the first place. Memory going bad? just needing reseated?

I reconnected optical drive and booted to cd and ran memtest and it reported no errors

Thanks
 
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