Re: BootBlock Bios

From: BootBlock Bios?? (BootBlockBios_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 15:15:03 -0800

Hi Rick, I talked with a guy at a local shop here and he said to go into my
bios upon restart and then save/exit out and this might fix it. Is this what
you mean by reflashing?

  No, I have not made any harware or bios changes, although, i had left my
home,with computer running, and when I returned the electricity was out in my
apt. building. ONce electricity was restored I started my computer and all
was fine, or seemed fine I should say. This was about 3 days before I started
having these problems though. One other thing.. could this be somthing cause
from a virus? AS I was talking with a friend online she sent me a link and I
clicked on. It opened and was written in a foreign language so I just closed
it. She said that she found it in her favorites and she doesn't remember
putting it there. That same night after clicking on this link is when my
problems began. Now I really don't think that my problem is result of a
virus, but it just thought it would be something else to consider. I know
from experience that data miners and such has ended up in my favorites
before.

  Thanks for your help Rick, and you also Jim, and I will try what the
suggested and if this doesn't help I'll take it to him. If this IS NOT what
you mean by reflashing then can you let me know? Thanks. -Chris

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
> www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "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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