I'm not certain, but I believe I've seen the "Check sum error" message when
the jumpers on the motherboard aren't set correctly. If this were my
computer, I'd recheck those jumpers.

Roxanne Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francisco Archuleta Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 16:57
>
> My dad just put together a new system. Now that I
> start writing this I am thinking I need to get some
> more info from him but I am going to send this for
> now. After he installed all of the components he tried
> to boot the system. While trying to do this the boot
> failed, and he received a message stating this:
>
> "Check sum error" does this sound familiar to any one?
> I will obtain some more info about the system but this
> is what I got for right now.

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