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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: basiltherat on February 01, 2013, 07:19:52 pm

Title: Eek, so today my PC declared "BIOS Checksum error" when I tired to boot! :-O
Post by: basiltherat on February 01, 2013, 07:19:52 pm

I have a GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard.....
the past few months it has seemed a bit sluggish (a few seconds of dithering) when powering/booting up, like it was struggling to initialise or doing some checking....

today it had a different logo showing and declared the BIOS checksum failed...
power cycling a couple of times saw it manage to restore the backup BIOS (version FA) and boot in the end.

I am going to use @BIOS to put the latest version back on (FH) - but am wondering why this happened at all...

It is just a random blip or does my motherboard battery likely need replacing or something like that?

The PC itself is rock solid - was Windows 7 since 2010 and been on Windows 8 for 2 months now.

Title: Re: Eek, so today my PC declared "BIOS Checksum error" when I tired to boot! :-O
Post by: basiltherat on February 02, 2013, 10:09:29 pm

Well, I used @BIOS to restore the BIOS to FH and all seems well for the past 24 hours.

Should I worry?  :P

Title: Re: Eek, so today my PC declared "BIOS Checksum error" when I tired to boot! :-O
Post by: Graceman on February 05, 2013, 11:54:23 am

I have same board and Gigabyte website showed F8a as latest Bios and F8b as beta version so where did you get FH and what does it give you extra.

I sometimes get an odd freeze when the MB is writing to disc or a slow boot since you reflashed is it running ok and what temp(On Air) is you CPU running at?
I am only running at 2.9 Ghz what is yours set at?

Title: Re: Eek, so today my PC declared "BIOS Checksum error" when I tired to boot! :-O
Post by: basiltherat on February 05, 2013, 02:07:00 pm

 The latest BIOS (for the Rev 2 board) is FH as shown here, surely?
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3449&dl=1#bios

Title: Re: Eek, so today my PC declared "BIOS Checksum error" when I tired to boot! :-O
Post by: Graceman on February 05, 2013, 03:57:40 pm

My board is a Rev 1.0 version of Ga X58a ud3r

Title: Re: Eek, so today my PC declared "BIOS Checksum error" when I tired to boot! :-O
Post by: basiltherat on February 05, 2013, 04:31:58 pm

Ah - then we don't have the same board :)