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Building computer problems, NEED HELP

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SportyGuy220

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ok i just built a computer for my uncle and i installed an ABIT KD7 motherboard and an AMD 1800 which i bought from these forums. I installed everything correctly, except floppy drive which i dont need, and when i go to boot up it says on the first post bootup.
CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR - DEFAULTS LOADED...
and i try to set the first boot device to cd-rom drive and the computer wont post when it restarts. so i turn the power supply switch off and i turn it back on and it keeps loading defaults. Then i try to use a floppy boot disk and it says
disk I/O error - replace disk, then press space bar to continue to boot from floppy.

I cant seem to get this computer to boot up. I keep changing the first boot device back to cd-rom but it keeps changing it back. Any ideas?

edit: i changed the cmos battery and its doing the same thing, by that i mean the settings wont stay, it keeps saying CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR - DEFAULTS LOADED... .Also, I kno its not the floppy drive becuase i booted my norton ghost floppy up and it worked fine. What is going on here.
 
Have you checked the CMOs jumper? Just asking as i have forgotten to put it back in the normal mode, and left it in the erase mode. Couldn't figure out why it would not save my settings.

If you have a multimeter, actually check the battery voltage to make sure it's good. I've had battery holders go bad, as in they no longer made propert contact with the battery. Which acts just like a dead battery.

Good luck! :)
 
well, after taking the whole thing apart and putting it back together and 2 psu's later. It finally booted up, i installed windows and everything is up and running.

The new problem is now the direct sound driver wont work and kazza lite wont connect through dial-up. But it can connect through internet explorer and aol and it is connected through internet. But just not kazza lite. wtf
 
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