Wife's rig gone KAPUT

doopydug · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:04

Got a 14 month old HP machine here =- XP5000 x64 cpu, 2gb ram, built in gfx.

For a couple of months, we have been getting random errors on start up saying "BIOS Rom checksum error"

Detecting floppy drive A error - system halt

The damn thing wont boot up at all now - any ideas guys?

I have swapped out the ram, tried booting with no drives connected but still the same

We have never updated the BIOS or changed any motherboard settings since we got the thing

There isn't even a floppy drive in the machine at all

Kennysevenfold · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:05

failing cmsos battery.? try replacing it

doopydug · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:14

Kennysevenfold said:
failing cmsos battery.? try replacing it

Tried that with known good one - no change sorry

Dano · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:16

doopydug said:
Tried that with known good one - no change sorry

Yes, but you did remember to go and adjust the BIOS settings after installing the new battery right?

Kennysevenfold · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:17

have you have sure the hdd is the first boot device in the bios.?
with you replacing the battery, this might have poped all the settings in the bios back to default, and the floppy is the first boot device, and since you dont have one your getting the error.?

doopydug · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:31

I have put a floppy in now and there is still no boot
It comes up with insert system disk now however.
Can't get into the BIOS however as it comes up with the checksum error and system halts before I can get in

Kennysevenfold · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:36

doopydug said:
I have put a floppy in now and there is still no boot
It comes up with insert system disk now however.
Can't get into the BIOS however as it comes up with the checksum error and system halts before I can get in

failing motherboard

doopydug · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:37

Kennysevenfold said:
failing motherboard

I was thinking that but was hoping for something to give me hope

Kennysevenfold · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:42

doopydug said:
I was thinking that but was hoping for something to give me hope

dont suppose you have any spares to test with.? :rolleyes:

edit:

if its only 14months old cant you contact hp.?

doopydug · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:44

Kennysevenfold said:
dont suppose you have any spares to test with.?

edit:

if its only 14months old cant you contact hp.?

I have no spares but I am going to contact them

Kennysevenfold · 25 Mar 2009 at 22:45

doopydug said:
I have no spares but I am going to contact them

yeah surly the warrenty is longer than 14 months.!
just all the hassle of sending it away and waiting

Bigbluebear · 26 Mar 2009 at 06:20

Kennysevenfold said:
yeah surly the warrenty is longer than 14 months.!
just all the hassle of sending it away and waiting

Just a thought, but wouldn't he void his warranty if he has opened the case up ?