I am experiencing a sever problem in booting my machine. I have a 1.80 GHz Pent.4, 512 Ram, 8K Pri. Cach3, 256K secondary Cache, 60Gb HD, CD-Rom, CD-RW Rom and a 3.5Floppy.
Half of the time on start-up I get no further than the negative screen comes alive and this appears:
Award BootBlock Bios v1.0
Copyright (c) 1995, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting floppy drive A media…
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
If I insert only the first (1 of 6) XP-SP1 Set Up Boot Disks I can turn off the machine as soon as it request the second disk and it will boot normally. The other half of the time the machine will boot when first turned on. There are no beep tone errors on start-up.
I have reformatted my HD and reloaded XP-Pro and have tried adjusting the boot device sequence in the Bio all with no results. New battery has been installed. All with no effect on the problem. It will boot normally if I turn off the machine and turn it back on immediately. If I allow it to sit for a while (cool down??) it will not boot. I am at the end of my limited knowledge, my wits and patients. Any and all suggestions will be most appreciated.
Thanks, Ed (eddie460@comcast.net)
