Help: A7N8X-VM/400 gets checksum error

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Hi All,

My pre fabricated name brand computer blew up after putting an ATA-133 card
in it so I decided to go back to the world of building PCs myself!

I purchased the Asus A7N8X-VM/400 mainboard. My system is setup and works
great. However, I do get two slow beeps and then two fast beeps at the bios
splash screen.

Occasionally i get an checksum error on the bios. I click on load defaults
and everything works great. I was wondering if anyone knew what these
errors are about?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
FF

PS: I did update the bios to the newest rev and no changes.
 
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>Hi All,
>
>My pre fabricated name brand computer blew up after putting an ATA-133 card
>in it so I decided to go back to the world of building PCs myself!
>
>I purchased the Asus A7N8X-VM/400 mainboard. My system is setup and works
>great. However, I do get two slow beeps and then two fast beeps at the bios
>splash screen.
>
>Occasionally i get an checksum error on the bios. I click on load defaults
>and everything works great. I was wondering if anyone knew what these
>errors are about?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>FF
>
>PS: I did update the bios to the newest rev and no changes.
>
>
A bad CMOS battery can cause that.
 
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I just replaced the battery and so far no checksum errors but I am still
getting 4 beeps during the splash screen.

Is the 4 beeps normal? If I disable the splash screen, it beeps twice slow
and then two quick beeps. However, this is all done during the NVRAM test
and reports no errors.

"Andrew J" <ajpk3@hotmail.comremove> wrote in message
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>
> >Hi All,
> >
> >My pre fabricated name brand computer blew up after putting an ATA-133
card
> >in it so I decided to go back to the world of building PCs myself!
> >
> >I purchased the Asus A7N8X-VM/400 mainboard. My system is setup and
works
> >great. However, I do get two slow beeps and then two fast beeps at the
bios
> >splash screen.
> >
> >Occasionally i get an checksum error on the bios. I click on load
defaults
> >and everything works great. I was wondering if anyone knew what these
> >errors are about?
> >
> >Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >FF
> >
> >PS: I did update the bios to the newest rev and no changes.
> >
> >
> A bad CMOS battery can cause that.
 
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On Tue, 6 Apr 2004 18:56:38 -0400, "Frequent Flyer" <ff@somewhere.com>
wrote:

>I just replaced the battery and so far no checksum errors but I am still
>getting 4 beeps during the splash screen.
>
>Is the 4 beeps normal? If I disable the splash screen, it beeps twice slow
>and then two quick beeps. However, this is all done during the NVRAM test
>and reports no errors.
>
Mine crunches to cure cancer so I didn't hook up any speakers to it.
My A7N8X DLX v2 boxes would always say the RAM was bad so I disabled
the voice on start up. The RAM is not bad since they run 24/7 with no
problems.
 
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"Andrew J" <ajpk3@hotmail.comremove> wrote in message
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> Mine crunches to cure cancer so I didn't hook up any speakers to it.
> My A7N8X DLX v2 boxes would always say the RAM was bad so I disabled
> the voice on start up. The RAM is not bad since they run 24/7 with no
> problems.


LOL. I was thinking about removing the speaker but then it would be handy
to have warning tones if the computer overheated or something like that.

FF