Cmos checksum error

[Beerwalker]

Hi,
I have replaced the battery and still get this message . I hit F1 to continue and nothing. Just stops. No HDD activity. If I hit DEL to enter setup, the same.
I have a soltek sl75drv mobo, athlon xp1900 cpu, 512ddr ram, ti4200 graphics.
I had reset bios to optimized defaults and rebooted, and it has been like this since. The only other prob was a wrong date issue. Wassup? This machine has been going fine for several years, and has had no recent hardware changes/upgrades.

 

[Ididmyc600]

Hi

Sounds like something I once saw on a HP RP5000, it was a corrupted BIOS chip and had to be replaced...

Regards

 

[tweakboy]

That is normal,, hit DEL ,, go into BIOS ,, and save settings and exit,

you should be fine,

 

[nickc]

I am going to say u need a new csmos battery.

 

[Beerwalker]

Thanks for your help. It turned out to be a cpu problem.
The guy had modded an xp1700 to an xp1900. Now it is back as original, all the probs have gone.(at least for now).

 

[nickc]

glad to hear u were able to fix the problem.