Re: Debian

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Richard wrote:

> I've just about finished a new Debian machine.  Switched it on 
> tonight and got the following error message.......
> Award Bootblock  BIOS v1.0
> BIOS checksum error
> detecting floppy drive A media
> insert system disk and press enter.

Sounds like the sticker on your BIOS has come off ;)) I would try flashing
it with the latest version from Award, see what that does. If it works,
then dies again after a while, new BIOS chip time..

> I've done that and I'm getting a floppy drive turning over and 
> nothing else.  New hard drive not been used.  Board is a 530BF 
> Jetways with a 233MHz cpu that was just throwing around in my spares 
> basket.

Is it a new mo/bo?

Cheers,

Alex.


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