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Program runs in MSDOS and claims "this program must run in MSDOS"????

It appears i messed because, when i 1st removed the battery, the date/time became wrong and i didn't notice. Was getting bad checksum EVERY time until i corrected the date/time and now it only shows this sometimes.

What's weird is that i keep having to select the damn USB for main removable drive because otherwise it doesn't select it as a boot drive: BIOS changes the setting by itself????

Finally managed to run the flashing program only for it to fail claiming the main BIOS checksum is bad, even though it doesn't say so when starting (sometimes). Used the PS2 keyboard to do it.

DAMN :(
 
go to bios select fail safe defaults.
set the time.
set it so you can use legacy usb devices (hard disks)
set boot hdd order so usb hard drive is 1st
save and exit without restart.
try to flash and hope for the best.
 
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Shambles1980 said:
go to bios select fail safe defaults.
set the time.
set it so you can use legacy usb devices (hard disks)
set boot hdd order so usb hard drive is 1st
save and exit without restart.
try to flash and hope for the best.
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That's what i did, except my hard drive is an USB pen drive (removed the HDD for this): got the error i mentioned in my previous post :(
 
i think it is time to tell your friend he will need new pc that will cost him 200-300euro
 
ne6togadno said:
i think it is time to tell your friend he will need new pc that will cost him 200-300euro
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The only thing i can think of is a hot BIOS flash. I had that done once for one of my old boards (don't recall which one: could even be this one), but it was done @ a repair shop.
 
HTC said:
The only thing i can think of is a hot BIOS flash. I had that done once for one of my old boards (don't recall which one: could even be this one), but it was done @ a repair shop.
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time to get a bios chip
 
use rufus and freedos and make sure you are formatting as fat or fat32
 
OneMoar said:
use rufus and freedos and make sure you are formatting as fat or fat32
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I used one of the ones provided by ne6togadno (DOS USB Driver) combined with the win98bootdisk that i already had: FINALLY managed to get the flashing program to work but, since it claimed bad BIOS checksum after reading the BIOS, that didn't get me anywhere :(

eidairaman1 said:
time to get a bios chip
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Not so easy on my neck of the woods :(
 
HTC said:
I used one of the ones provided by ne6togadno (DOS USB Driver) combined with the win98bootdisk that i already had: FINALLY managed to get the flashing program to work but, since it claimed bad BIOS checksum after reading the BIOS, that didn't get me anywhere :(

A long time ago it was hard for me to get a chip and im in the us


Not so easy on my neck of the woods :(
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HTC said:
I used one of the ones provided by ne6togadno (DOS USB Driver) combined with the win98bootdisk that i already had: FINALLY managed to get the flashing program to work but, since it claimed bad BIOS checksum after reading the BIOS, that didn't get me anywhere :(



Not so easy on my neck of the woods :(
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you get bad checksum on new bios or on the old one.
if it is on the new try redownload it. if this doesnt help contact asus and ask em to send you lates bios for mb.
i still think you should call it.
you are trying to resurect something that has to be long dead.
even if you fix bios now, sooner or later capacitors will start fail or something else will go south. no need to fell guilty. it is old tech. you cant know how long it will last. it lasted quite longer then one would expect.
for about 200-300 euro your friend may have low mid end pc that will last him 4-5+ years (with basic needs he has).
he will be able to use 64bit win and newer versions of programs he use (or other programs that are better from those he use atm)
 
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ne6togadno said:
you get bad checksum on new bios or on the old one.
if it is on the new try redownload it. if this doesnt help contact asus and ask em to send you lates bios for mb.
i still think you should call it.
you are trying to resurect something that has to be long dead.
even if you fix bios now, sooner or later capacitors will start fail or something else will go south. no need to fell guilty. it is old tech. you cant know how long it will last. it lasted quite longer then one would expect.
for about 200-300 euro your friend may have low mid end pc that will last him 4-5+ years (with basic needs he has).
he will be able to use 64bit win and newer versions of programs he use (or other programs that are better from those he use atm)
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Unfortunately, it claims the problem is the existing BIOS.

I was supposed to have talked to him today but he didn't show so i couldn't yet.

Thanks to all those that gave suggestions to fix this!
 
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ne6togadno said:
do you use afudos for flashing
looks like this problems is quite common with this mb
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum...arting-bios-recovery-asus-motherboard#4396891
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Until i noticed (... DUH ...) i had the wrong date/time, i was getting bad BIOS checksum 100% all the time: forgot about that when i swapped the BIOS battery ... :banghead:

Once i noticed that, it would give bad BIOS sometimes but i made sure to run the flashing program on occasions where it did not give bad BIOS. The flashing program starts reading the existing BIOS and gives bad checksum after doing this: before the writing ever starts.

EDIT

Tried the board's CD already: doesn't boot from it ... :( I pretty much get what the dude in this video is getting (look @ monitor) when using the board's CD :(
 
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cant see what is in the video atm.
try to flash older versions of bios. if you suceed. it might fix check sum error and after that you can try with newest bios (dont use beta if there is any)
 
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ne6togadno said:
cant see what is in the video atm.
try to flash older versions of bios. if you suceed. it might fix check sum error and after that you can try with newest bios (dont use beta if there is any)
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I'm beginning to think he brought me the wrong CD: no BIOS on it @ all. Doesn't say what board it belongs to in the CD's label: only that it's an ASUS motherboard CD and an inspection of it's contents doesn't help either :(

I'm trying to follow the steps in this page: http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/topic/bad-bios-checksum-how-to-fix-it-/page/2 only i can't use the USB for that: only floppy or CD (board too old).


EDIT

A search on the ASUS site doesn't produce results with the board K8V SE: only K8V-X SE or K8V SE Deluxe ... WTF?????

How can the manufacturer's own site NOT have the board listed? Huh???

EDIT #2

Tried using the BIOS i had (beta 1008.004) and renamed it to K8VSEDX.ROM (according to the manual: http://www.manualslib.com/manual/10105/Asus-Asus-K8v-Se.html?page=71#manual) but that don't work: maybe it does need to be a non beta but i'm having no luck finding it ... ARGH ....
 
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ne6togadno said:
then it is deluxe
https://www.google.bg/search?client=opera&q=K8V SE rev 1.13&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=DkOoU5eWMsLc8gei_4DwDg

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try to identify what should be rom name in the way it is shown in the video
http://support.asus.com/download.aspx?SLanguage=en&p=1&s=20&m=K8V SE Deluxe&os=&hashedid=65HeDI8XM1u6Uy6o
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Already did: K8VSEDX.ROM

Tried that with the beta i had: no work.

Trying to do the same with BIOS 1001 but my stupid DVD burner now refuses to eject after erasing so i can't burn the new BIOS just yet ...

EDIT

Finally managed to do it and ... no go either: it reads the file and says file not found????

DAMMIT!!!!
 
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Finally got my hands on the REAL board's CD and with it i managed to recover the BIOS.

But there seems to be a more serious problem as it still keeps on getting bad BIOS checksum after it rebooted a few times. Talked with my friend and he took both of the batteries we had to test them (he has the means to do this while i don't) as they are both supposed to be full (or almost). If indeed the batteries have charge, then the problem is much more severe and i already warned him: he may have to get another board.
 
Turns out one of the batteries was not OK but the other one was. Unfortunately, after recovering the BIOS, loading it's defaults, correcting the date and everything else, it still claims bad BIOS checksum after rebooting :(
 
UPDATE

Turns out i made quite a big mistake: i thought i had but i didn't load BIOS defaults after restoring the original BIOS and before rebooting. My friend did this and it seems fixed, other then the original problem which was a corrupt windows installation. That was the reason he brought the PC over to my house: that and i was supposed to sell one of my spinpoint F3 HDDs since he thought his HDD was damaged (his HDD is an IDE one).

Messed up: facepalm ...
 
Well at least you didn't break anything. Be happy for that :)
 
silkstone said:
Well at least you didn't break anything. Be happy for that :)
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The jury's still out on that: i had my brother's laptop @ the same time as my friend's PC, to backup what he wanted to keep and make a fresh windows install and i seem to have broken his recharger as well as the battery: there's an icon in his desktop saying the battery needs replacing. My sister took it to a repair store where they tested the recharger and it seems to be damaged. And since the icon before mentioned appears while the recharger is NOT plugged in, that's a 2 for 1 type of deal ... :(
 
UPDATE

Turns out the motherboard really is damaged and any windows installation freezes midway through the startup: tried several installation CDs and even made a new one just to be sure the CD wasn't @ fault. I fixed the BIOS with the board's CD and reload it's defaults but after a few reboots, it states yet again the BIOS has bad checksum, even though the battery has been proven OK :(

As for the laptop, turns out it had 3 hibernation viruses (????) and both the battery as well as the charger are OK ... :twitch:
 
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