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Re: Possible Bad BIOS Load
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Doug Simmons <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:45:45 -0500
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At 12/6/00 08:45 AM, Omar Melo wrote:

>I recycle older computers computer to lower income
>people at little or no cost. I recently inherited an
>older CTX machine, which the BIOS seems to damaged or
>the load had been botched by the previous owner.
>
>It has the following symptoms:
>    During boot, BIOS checksum error appears.

I have gotten this error when I had memory that was bad or not seated
properly in the socket. Might try checking memory before scrapping it.

Doug

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