Re: BootBlock Bios

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From: Rick \ (rick_at_mvps.org)
Date: 11/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 07:31:34 -0500

Hi Chris,

You may need to take it to a shop. You have a serious hardware problem. I
would speculate that the CMOS chip has a problem that may or may not be
fixed by reflashing it with a current BIOS. Did you make any hardware
changes or alter any of the BIOS settings recently? This could also have
triggered it. 

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Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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"BootBlock Bios??" <BootBlock Bios??@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in 
message news:C3981029-C75E-4C0F-8348-402F3E1E9796@microsoft.com...
>I began getting a black screen reading:
>
>  "Bootblock Bios.. Bios Rom Checksum Error... Detecting Floppy Drive A
> media"
>
>  On the first two times this happened it also read:  "no keyboard 
> detected"
> and "Insert system Disk"  Only after my first restart did it say "No
> keyboard"
>
>  All I could do was shut down and attemp restarting. Many times when
> restarting all it would do is start the cooling fans and CD ROM. There 
> were
> no other indication that my computer was running. No other lights (besides 
> CD
> ROM) and nothing on the monitor.
>
>  Once after restart I got a blue **STOP** screen telling me that I may 
> need
> to restart and disable bios memory options (caching or shadowing) It also
> read:  "IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL"
>
>  Can you please tell me what is happing and what steps I need to take to
> fix this problem?  Thank you.  -Chris

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