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Originally Posted by RaefS
Tried this yesterday and again today. Pulled Battery and grounded CMOS for 1 hour. No change on reboot. On boot, computer says
Award BootBIOS version 1.0
BIOS ROM checksum error
then looks for bootable CD or floppy. I have downloaded and attempted to reflash with awdflash.exe but get the message "Award BIOS is not the current version ...". I get this message using a .bin file I found for another HP computer running XP OS. I can't seem to trick the system to recognize any other version of BIOS file.
Can you extract the .bin or .rom file from the file on this page?
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/s...s=2093&lang=en |
The f8 function key may allow access to bios. Continually depress f8 at start up until you find the access point. If you should get in then go directly to date and time. Set them or reset them and save and exit.