hi, ive had my computer for 2 years now. It was built for me by a friend of mine. When I got it installed I chose not to have a floppy drive. Ive had no serious problems with it until recently. I usually keep my computer on for long periods of time before ever restarting or shutting it down. Most recently I shut down my computer and when I turned it back on I got an error message with nonstop beeping. It said:
Award Bootblock BIOS v1.0
BIOS ROM Checksum error
Detecting Floppy Drive A Media
Drive A Error. System Halt.
So I restarted about 10 times and each time it would just go to that screen and beep. So I unplugged the power supply and waited a couple minutes. Restarted the computer and went into BIOS. I wasnt sure what I was doing but I looked under BIOS FEATURE SETUP and it said 1st boot device was FLOPPY, i changed that to hdd-0, then as 2nd boot device i chose cdrom, and 3rd i chose hdd-1. then i went into Standard CMOS Features and it said that I had a floppy drive. so I changed it to none. saved the changes and computer booted up without a problem. Then I saw in My Computer that I had an A Drive. So I went into Device Manager and removed it. This was about a week ago until now where it happened again. Did the same steps and I was able to boot up the comp again. Not sure what the problem is since I never had a floppy drive. any help would be great
thanks
Award Bootblock BIOS v1.0
BIOS ROM Checksum error
Detecting Floppy Drive A Media
Drive A Error. System Halt.
So I restarted about 10 times and each time it would just go to that screen and beep. So I unplugged the power supply and waited a couple minutes. Restarted the computer and went into BIOS. I wasnt sure what I was doing but I looked under BIOS FEATURE SETUP and it said 1st boot device was FLOPPY, i changed that to hdd-0, then as 2nd boot device i chose cdrom, and 3rd i chose hdd-1. then i went into Standard CMOS Features and it said that I had a floppy drive. so I changed it to none. saved the changes and computer booted up without a problem. Then I saw in My Computer that I had an A Drive. So I went into Device Manager and removed it. This was about a week ago until now where it happened again. Did the same steps and I was able to boot up the comp again. Not sure what the problem is since I never had a floppy drive. any help would be great
thanks