cmos checksum failed due to hard drive

piet <x> wrote:

> If you have an asus motherboard and u get this error:

> cmos checksum failed resetting to defaults.

> It might by caused by a samsung spinpoint harddrive.

What evidence do you have for that last bit ?

Its MUCH more likely to just be a cmos battery that needs replacing.

> Make a change in the bios and save after replacing the hard drive.

No point in replacing the hard drive, you replace the cmos battery.
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> piet <x> wrote:
>
>> If you have an asus motherboard and u get this error:
>
>> cmos checksum failed resetting to defaults.
>
>> It might by caused by a samsung spinpoint harddrive.
>
> What evidence do you have for that last bit ?
>
> Its MUCH more likely to just be a cmos battery that needs replacing.
>

Did that didnt help, replacing hdd fixed it.

>> Make a change in the bios and save after replacing the hard drive.
>
> No point in replacing the hard drive, you replace the cmos battery.
>
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piet <x> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa RemoveThis @gmail.com> wrote
>> piet <x> wrote

>>> If you have an asus motherboard and u get this error:

>>> cmos checksum failed resetting to defaults.

>>> It might by caused by a samsung spinpoint harddrive.

>> What evidence do you have for that last bit ?

>> Its MUCH more likely to just be a cmos battery that needs replacing.

> Did that didnt help, replacing hdd fixed it.

You must have stuffed something up completely.

>>> Make a change in the bios and save after replacing the hard drive.

>> No point in replacing the hard drive, you replace the cmos battery.
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> piet wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> If you have an asus motherboard and u get this error:
>>
>> cmos checksum failed resetting to defaults.
>>
>> It might by caused by a samsung spinpoint harddrive.
>> Make a change in the bios and save after replacing the hard drive.
>
> What model asus, and what exact model samsung drive? Did you get the

The shop gave me another Asus P5V-VM DH motherboard, it didnt help
System works fine with now with a maxtor harddrive instead of the
Samsung.spinpoint SP2504C

> latest bios? If there is an incompatibility, a bios upgrade may help.

There are some bios updates at Asus but they dont mention anything about
cmos checksum errors. And I am happy the system is working now so I wont try
a flash bios.
>
> If you identify a hardware incomptatbility, that a bios upgrade does
> not cure, write asus an email with as much detail as possible.
>
> It is also a possibility you have a bad hard drive OR board.
>
Harddrive does get recognized properly in setup, could still be a hardware
problem but I dont have another Sata II system to test it..
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