CSUM (?) Error...dead computer...

[Rosiey]

I was having a little problem with my computer freezing repeatedly, so I rebooted for the millionth time (and I did to a scan disk and defrag...just incase). It hung on the screen "Csum error...yadda yadda...settings .......blah blah" I cant remember all of what it said (I am not a rocket scientist...but manage to make my computers work when I build em...go figure) Anywho, so I went into the bios...looked at my CMOS settings etc etc...noticed the processor speed was wrong... I set it back to what it was ( was 100/100...supposed to be 133/133) And rebooted....and POOF...nothing...no booting at all...

The motherboard...heavens I cant remember what it is off hand. The processor is a athelon 1700 with 256 ddram...crappy onboard sound and geforce 2 video...I built this about 2 months ago.

Any hints? Or is my puter really dead!!!??

it might not be dead you just need to clear the cmos and try again the reason for the checksum error is it got cleared before. Your hoping its not a corupted bios. But it shouldn't be, if worse comes to worse once you get it to reboot you can flash the bios

[Rosiey]

Well I tried the battery trick...nothing. It seems as though the hard drive is not running...I switched jumpers on it and nothin.

Are any fans running at all? If not, could be a power supply problem.

I take it you get no video at all now? Not even a BIOS boot screen?

And, did you clear the CMOS or just remove the battery temporarily. Most modern CMOSes will retain settings for quite some time even if the battery is removed. You need to clear the CMOS using the appropriate jumper on the mobo.

Cheers
Mick

[Rosiey]

To be honest I dont know what I am looking for on the motherboard for the Cmos...I know very basic stuff.

It's a jumper, specific to that particular mobo. So you need either the mobo manual, or tell us the exact brand/model of mobo, and we'll find the correct jumper for you.

Some mobos have the words CMOS printed next to a jumper. All you need to do is close that jumper for 5-10 seconds, then open it again, and the CMOS has been cleared.

Cheers
Mick

[Rosiey]

Ok...found the jumper...closed it...opened it...nothing

I think it is time to call it a night before I launch the damn thing out the window


Thank you for the help

Is the CPU fan running when power is on? Is the CPU fan attached to the fan header? Some boards won't boot if no fan is attached.

Still wonder anbout the power supply if the HDD isn't running...

Cheers
Mick