Your battery is dead.  There is nothing else wrong.  You need to replace it,
and figure out how to access cmos.  Alternate keys for del on some systems
were esc and f10.  If your system shows a memory check odometer, that is the
time to press the cmos access key, and keep pressing it.
Tom turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Tomas Santos [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:59 PM

Could someone pls. enlighten me?
What would cause a "BIOS ROM checksum Error"
message to be displayed on boot up of
MOBO : MB-8433UUD (Has a DALLAS Modium battery)
486 Am5x86-P75(X5-133), 32Mb ext mem? (Award BIOS)
Will boot from DOS 6.2 floppy, cannot get it to
recognize hard drive. Will not POST.

Tried getting into CMOS set up by pressing DEL but
system goes on to recognize installed 1.44 floppy
and requests system disk to be introduced and to
press Enter. It never concedes access to CMOS setup!

Is this an indication that MOBO is kaput? TIA

Tomas Santos  [[log in to unmask]]

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