Re: Lost HD Master function / CMOS checksum error
- From: tedoniman <tedoniman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 11:04:01 -0700
OK, NoStop; sorry I'm so late to reply and put a lid on the issue.
Fact is, due to my rotten memory these days, I'd provided partly misleading
and
downright false information to you and others. Sin of omission, actually.
Truth is, that BIOS error message was my own dumb fault. I was pretty panicky
in those initial stages when I tried to get that HD to boot again. I'd gone
into the
BIOS at some stage to see what could be done.
That led to some problem or other, after which decided to better reset the
CMOS
settings by removing the battery, as couldn't get past the Post and DEL. I
also found the jumper, later.
It's right after that, I think, that I got that silly error message and this
and the weird BIOS behavior thereafter, led me to believe that BIOS was kaput
or infected.
When I finally got me some sleep and re-ran the thing in my head and started
all
over, I quickly realized my mistake.
Turns out the actual (and only) problem (as supported by the Slave-mode
check) was due to MBR and prime (FAT) master partition corruption. How I
don't know but
using some inspection tools, I could see there were lots of IBM type
characters in
MBR and FAT Table, in lieu of numbers. The NTFS (second) partition was not
affected.
Not being too much on the ball and not v. familiar with it, I didn't try the
'mbr fix'
thing. Since I'd already backed all up in Slave mode, I just straight went
ahead w/ the re-partition/ reformat/ re-install thing. All went OK and don't
look like got any
more bad sectors either (as I said before, originally there were 1MB in bad
sectors).
There's another thing that seemed to have happend at same time the HD went
south. I didn't find 'til later, tho', that the RAM had crapped too and went
down
from original of 224 to 96 MB. No amount of re-seating or re-slotting did
any good,
by the way. Time to get a new board, I guess, tho' 3 mem testers say rest is
OK
and I'm running on it at reasonable performance right now.
All I can say is, 'scuse and thanks for putting me on the right track.
Could be I'll be back again soon with another weird problem. My life is
full of them; No(n)Stop or never ending, you might say.
Adios and thanks for the assist. Got some more backups to upload
and un-zip.
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Ted...
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"NoStop" wrote:
On Saturday 19 August 2006 11:46 pm, tedoniman had this to say in.
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:
20 Aug., 2006. To: Win XP Gen (No Stop)I jumped into this thread mainly because others were pointing to some
OK. Trying out this Outlook Newsgroup route as advised earlier by W.
Vogel. Hope this works.
"CMOS Checksum error - defaults loaded
Warning! CPU has changed. or CPU ratio changed fail
Please re-enter CPU settings in the CMOS setup and remember to save
before exit!
As regards the above, I'm not exactly sure what's meant by lines 2 and 3.
What's
meant by "CPU ratio changed fail"? What kind of English is that? I'm out
of it at
moment, using the affected HDD as a Slave right now in this computer here,
trying to
back things up - 30 GB's of it!; so can't re-check CMOS right now. Just
popped in
here for quick check, to look for some extra help before I really mess
things up.
If it means the clock freq ratio, it's set as usual to 133 x 20. That
works out to
2.66 GHz, which is correct. Nothing to change.
problem with your hard drive, when in fact, the only error message you
posted was related to a BIOS problem. You can play with your BIOS settings
until you're able to get the computer to boot without displaying that error
message and you don't need your hard drive in the system while
troubleshooting it. In fact, for safety reasons, I'd detach that hard
drive.
BIOS settings are something I can't troubleshoot through Usenet, as there
are so many settings that can impact one another and every BIOS version may
vary.
Look at your motherboard manual (or visit the manufacturer's website) to see
how to properly clear that BIOS. Usually there will be a jumper on the mobo
for doing this.
Just to be sure, start with a fresh BIOS battery, since that's so easily
replaceable.
Make sure that when you've set the CPU settings that you also set your
memory to run at the appropriate speed for your bus settings. A 1:1 setting
can be tried.
There is also the possibility that your power supply isn't sending enough
power to your CPU to run at the speed you're trying to use. Again, swapping
the PSU with a known good one, is another easy troublshooting step.
It IS POSSIBLE that your BIOS chip is screwed and will require either
replacement (if it will pop out) or a new motherboard. This of course is a
serious and expensive problem.
But I wouldn't even be looking at diagnosing your hard drive until you
address the BIOS issue first.
Best of luck.
If I remember correctly (highly debatable), there was one "CPU Settings"<snip>
that when I clicked ENTER, I saw an unchangeable single entry - something
about 'Thermal setting' or similar. It didn't look critical at all;
otherwise I would have
delved deeper. So nothing to do there.
As I said before, all other entries for CPU, etc., looked normal. I've
seen those
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What have you done about the cmos error #2 above? That's the only error
message being displayed.
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http://www.ntk.net/media/developers.mpg
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View Some Common Linux Desktops ...
http://shots.osdir.com/
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