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    BFTrick is offline Newbie

    wowzors

    ok i built my own computer back in april. it has held up more or less just fine until now....

    1) recently it has been restarting without a reason, sometimes in the middle of a computer game, or while im listening to music.

    2) after it restarted without an apparant cause it gave me a
    "Bios ROM checksum error
    detecting floppy drive A media...
    Drive A error. System halt"

    the whole time it gave off one steady beep, (or note?) rather since it didnt ever pause or break.

    3) all of a sudden the picture just cuts out, i dont think its the monitor itself. The screen just goes blank and a solid single beep repeats every second or so. this happens at startup and during programs.

    what on earth should i do?


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    jephree is offline ¨*·.¸ «.·°·..·°·.» ¸.·*¨
    That sounds very much like a CPU problem; heat. Have you checked the fan & or any noticeable heat?

    BIOS ROM Checksum Errors:

    http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/sys/booterrGBER03-c.html

    I also see fixes for this full error:
    "Bios ROM checksum error
    detecting floppy drive A media...
    Drive A error. System halt"
    recommending flashing the BIOS including the boot sector.

    Also:

    Change this setting to see if you can get an error message:

    rt. click My Computer then click Properties then Advanced then Startup and Recovery Settings then unclick Automatically restart

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