American Megatrends bios's SUCK.Ive always stuck with award and for once i didnt check and my damn socket a board came with AMI, i assumed it didnt as my old gigabyte i had with my k5 was award anyhow.I downloaded a new bios for my board and i wanted to flash it, well it said in dos Usage: Flashblabla romfile /commandwell i know what im doing and it did not work at all so. I went back to giga-byte.com.
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They have this @bios windows flash utility, for gigabyte board so i used itit said it worked but reboot and ( BAD CMOS Checksum )i onyl got booted by going f1 getting into cmos and loading bios defaults, long story short i flashed back to the old one using the windows thing again same message, so.i downloaded another bios one newer then m orignal but older then the first one. That came with some other flash utility it was dos based but in a Dos window environemtn and i flashed it. Said PASSED but.
SAME MESSAGE!!What does this meanBAD CMOS checksum???I mean i rebooted tons and it showed up once more but 7x + and i havent seen it since but.what do i do??My computer is running really good right now buti mean i hate american megatrendsi regret buying it,it made my listNever buy:Cyrix processorsAcer Cd romsMaxtor hard Drivesand AMI bio'sCan anyone help me who has flashed a AMI bios.? Having just flashed my bios maybe I can be of help.Always flash from dos not a command window.Down in this list of command line parameters you will see a switch to turn off the bios cheksum verification. If I remember correctly as I cant find the info right now the checksum is only needed if you have parity checking memory. I have only seen one board that had it.You mentioned that the flash said it worked. After a flash it needs to goto the bios defaults to be sure the computer will start.
This is the new bios defaults not the old bios defaults so you are still ok. Once inside the bios find the section for memory parity check. If its on turn it off and vice versa. This should clear up your problems.Try www.ping.be/bios/index.html or www.motherboards.com for more info.
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus Paul wrote: Got a P4C800-E Deluxe board and noticed upon booting, the POST indicates a message that say's, 'Checking NVRAM'. Upon the first (or second) time the system booted, on the same line along side Checking NVRAM, it would indicate something like 'OK!'
Now I don't get the verification (OK)message anymore, system just continues to boot to WinXP. Does this mean the NVRAM is no good (whatever NVRAM is?) Thanks.Nothing to worry about unless the 'OK' indication shows uptoo often. 'Checking NVRAM' is a routine part of POST foran AMI bios. But if 'OK' appears, then it means that NVRAM,the non-volatile RAM portion of the CMOS, has been changedand updated.
The NVRAM holds the bios configuration setupdata. The Windows OS does write to the bios and can causethe NVRAM to be updated if Windows has ordered some change. Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus 'Ghostrider' wrote in messagenews:[email protected]. Paul wrote: Got a P4C800-E Deluxe board and noticed upon booting, the POST indicates a message that say's, 'Checking NVRAM'.
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Upon the first (or second) time the system booted, on the same line along side Checking NVRAM, it would indicate something like 'OK!' Now I don't get the verification (OK)message anymore, system just continues to boot to WinXP. Does this mean the NVRAM is no good (whatever NVRAM is?) Thanks. Nothing to worry about unless the 'OK' indication shows up too often.
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'Checking NVRAM' is a routine part of POST for an AMI bios. But if 'OK' appears, then it means that NVRAM, the non-volatile RAM portion of the CMOS, has been changed and updated. The NVRAM holds the bios configuration setup data.
The Windows OS does write to the bios and can cause the NVRAM to be updated if Windows has ordered some change.Hmmm. I have a P4P800 Deluxe, and every time I turn it on, I get themessage 'Checking NVRAM' and then a second or less later, it says '1024 MBOK' I haven't noticed anything overtly wrong with my machine - but sometimesit hangs on the 'checking NVRAM' message - if there is an excessively longtime interval between the first message and the second '1024 MB OK' message,I will boot to a black screen and will have to turn power off to get thingsworking again - a simple reset will not work. This happens every now andthen. Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:09:41 GMT, 'Greysky' wrote: Nothing to worry about unless the 'OK' indication shows up too often. 'Checking NVRAM' is a routine part of POST for an AMI bios. But if 'OK' appears, then it means that NVRAM, the non-volatile RAM portion of the CMOS, has been changed and updated. The NVRAM holds the bios configuration setup data.
The Windows OS does write to the bios and can cause the NVRAM to be updated if Windows has ordered some change.Hmmm. I have a P4P800 Deluxe, and every time I turn it on, I get themessage 'Checking NVRAM' and then a second or less later, it says '1024 MBOK'Mine too. I just built it today, still adding things, new harddrive, software, etcI haven't noticed anything overtly wrong with my machine - butsometimes I haven't either.+Johnny Asia, Guitarist from the Future. Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus Johnny Asia wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 03:09:41 GMT, 'Greysky' wrote:Nothing to worry about unless the 'OK' indication shows uptoo often. 'Checking NVRAM' is a routine part of POST foran AMI bios. But if 'OK' appears, then it means that NVRAM,the non-volatile RAM portion of the CMOS, has been changedand updated. The NVRAM holds the bios configuration setupdata.
The Windows OS does write to the bios and can causethe NVRAM to be updated if Windows has ordered some change.Hmmm. I have a P4P800 Deluxe, and every time I turn it on, I get themessage 'Checking NVRAM' and then a second or less later, it says '1024 MBOK' Mine too. I just built it today, still adding things, new hard drive, software, etc I haven't noticed anything overtly wrong with my machine - but sometimes I haven't either.
+Sorry guys.the 'OK' after the RAM check is normal. Ithought the OP was writing about getting the OK priorto the start of the RAM check.
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My specification,-MSI 770-C45, AM3 AMD 770 (motherboard)-AMD Phenom II X4 810 (2.6 Ghz) AM3 boxed 512 Kb L2 cache (processor)- Kingston 4 Gb DDR3 1333 (2 sticks of RAM)-WDC WD16?(hard drive)-HL-DT-STDVD?-Hitachi-HDT-721?(hard drive-1TB)-A Open 400W peak Z400-08FC (power source)-MSI N9400 GT (Vidieo card)-Sound blaster X-Fi Xtremen Audio (sound card)-OS is window XP home edition & SP3-Cooler Master V8 (cooling unit)Dear community,I am currently having problem with my boot up sequence; it hang after it says 'checking NVRAM'. Afterward I get the Black Screen of?(bloody annoyance), it's a black screen with only 1 white cursor.History of my case:I have been thinking about OverClocking my computer.(yes the big OC). I have downloaded articles on how to do it and was snooping around the BIOS to familiarize with all the setting and terms. I have played around with some setting like FSB, multiplier and voltage setting.
Before you hit the panic button, I would like to say my 'playing around' was not extreme I stay within the safety range of my computer (ie. Ram volt 1.6, cpu volt 1.25, FSB 305 and multiplier 9-9.5). So in theory I have not fried anything (I hope).
I than downloaded the application 'Prime95' and ran a test on my system. I have a quad core so Prime95 choose to do 4 test simultaneously, within 1-2 min a test fail. I though lets boot the 'Fail-safe default' setting in the BIOS and check for stability there and as that was stable than I could use that as my 'baseline'(from this baseline I could begin with my overclocking). After the 'Fail-safe default' setting was safe in the BIOS and reboot the problem with 'checking NVRAM' started.I have gone online and searched around for solutions.
Most of the forums concluded that the CMOS is corrupted and some suggested ways to resolve this problem.Here is a list of what I have tried:-removing the battery on the motherboard for a few hours, press in the power button on my computer and than reset the jumper according to my manual. With the power cord laying on the floor.(and variation of this method but no power in the power cable) - NO LUCK-Some solution suggest that the NVRAM problem was caused by USB devices.
I did have 2 USB devices connected to my computer(my wireless keyboard and mouse). So that was removed and the boot sequence retry - NO LUCK-Other suggestion include checking the BIOS for the option 'Quick Boot' is set to 'enable' and it was. (I had hope that was the problem) - NO LUCK-Another included loose IDE cable may be the cause, so checked all the IDE devices and cables (IDE cable sit in the DVD and HD).-Two other suggestions which I could not try are:1) disable extended memory test-how do I do that?2) turn of NVRAM check in the BIOS-how do I do that?I'll look into the last two suggestions further in my manual or online, but if there is some one out there that is familiar with my computer configuration or have a similar system with the know how please feel free to drop a line of 2 or more if needed.
thank you.I hope this is not too much information to set on the forum. But if there is anyone out there in the community that can come up the suggestion(s) that I can try, please feel free post the suggestion(s) on the forum or contact me at [email protected] sincerely thank all participants in this forum for your help. I ran into this years ago and it was 'none of the above.' It turned out the owner had installed ALL the motherboard standoffs and one of them shorted out somewhere on the back side of the motherboard. What stumped and stopped them from fixing it was 'it worked before.' That is, they even were insisting we not pull the motherboard to look for this issue because 'it worked before.'
Try to remove ideas such as 'it worked before' and consider starting over, on cardboard and the least amount of parts.Bob. First I would like to thank KeesB and R.Proffitt for thier input.But I've some how solved the problem.
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