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CMOS Checksum Bad [Advice Please]

thesaxmachine08thesaxmachine08 Registered User regular
edited December 2010 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Hello, I'm putting a computer together for the first time and I ran into this lovely issue which at firs wasn't letting me do anything past POST or BIOS setup. A friend suggested taking the mobo battery out for a few minutes then putting it back in. After doing this, I still get the cmos checksum bad error with the options of f1 to setup bios and f2 to run with defaults. If I press f2 the computer seems to boot up just fine, and I can log in and what not. I'm just concerned that I'm avoiding a problem by just pressing f2 every time.

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  • SpudgeSpudge Witty comments go next to this blue dot thingyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Please post the make/model of the mobo

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  • thesaxmachine08thesaxmachine08 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    MSI X58M LGA 1366 Intel X58 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130227

    There you go!

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  • SpudgeSpudge Witty comments go next to this blue dot thingyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Check this page out

    Also try flashing the BIOS, you can get the lastest FW here

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  • thesaxmachine08thesaxmachine08 Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Kind of a noob quesiton, how does one flash a newer BIOS?

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  • Glirk DientGlirk Dient Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    Look in the manual and see if there is a jumper to do it.

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  • SpudgeSpudge Witty comments go next to this blue dot thingyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2010
    The easiest way is probably to boot to windows, download and install the Live Update utility found here

    Run the utility and it should show whether or not there are any updates to apply to your board

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  • piratejitpiratejit Registered User regular
    edited December 2010
    bad checksum just means your bios settings were reset when you pulled the battery out and you haven't gone in and set any. The biggest problem you could run in to is the date and time in your bios will be wrong.

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