Ive had a Compaq Presario PC (SR5505F) with Home Vista Premium in my closet for about 2 months now and have decided to finally fix it. It has an ASUS M2N68-LA motherboard, 160 GB sata hard drive, 2gb ram and AMD Athlon X2 4200 Dual Core Processor.
I'm very much aware that the problem I am facing has to do with the BIOS (which i cannot access).
At startup, i receive the following message:
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting IDE ATAPI device...
Found CDROM, try to Boot from it ... Fail
Detecting floppy drive A media...
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
The CD drive automatically is the 1st device booted at startup so I believe that a bootable CD with the right rom files and bios updates is what I need to get my BIOS back in check. When a CD is recognized, the message changes to:
Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting IDE ATAPI device...
Found CDROM, try to Boot from it ... Pass
DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
With nothing to boot off the CD, it just gives me the disk boot failure message.
I have even ordered the system disks from Compaq and the following message after inserting the 1st disk is:
Error: No enough memory!
I even went out to Best Buy and bought a brand new 2 GB DDR2 stick of RAM and it turned out not to be the issue. I think I need to "flash" the BIOS as I've read on other threads.
This thread: (
I have really screwed up my BIOS on my desktop - HELP! [Archive] - MajorGeeks Support Forums) is almost the exact same problem I am experiencing but was unable to solve my problem following the steps mentioned on the thread. I have a feeling that I am not using the right files of some sort when I burn the bootable CD's. I need a step by step to get through this problem. I've used the imgburn program to create my bootable CD's and have used sach2's (genius from the thread im referring to) iso uploads to try to resolve my problem and have had little luck.
PLEASE HELP!!!
**I tried burning sach2's Bootivy.iso file and the only Message ive recieved is:
"Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
Copyright (c) 2000, Award Software, Inc.
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting IDE ATAPI device...
Found CDROM, try to Boot from it ... Pass
1.) FD 1.44 System Type-(00)
_"
The underscore just stays flashing after.. and nothing happens. This is the most progress I've made.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!
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