Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0

BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting floppy drive A media...

I have tried to put in a bootable floppy disk. I've tried to write in the autoexec.bat to run awdflash.exe and the system wont run the floppy disk. The light is on the floppy drive and you can hear the floppy reading any floppy disk but it wont contiune to proceed.
I was flashing my ASUS BIOS from ver 1005 to ver1010 via windows using ASUS LIVE UPDATE and everything went fine and it asked me to reboot my pc. I said OK and after it rebooted I got the above message. Ive tried to remove my battery and swap the jumpers, still nothing. HELP ME PLZZ

Asus A7N8X-X
AMD 2600
1.5GIG RAM DDR
Floppy 3.5
EVGA 6600GT Video
Soundblaster Live
120GIG HD
LG Burner
Sony 48X CD-ROM
420W PS

Maybe you could go to control panel delete 3.5 floppy drive under floppy disk drives and reboot.

You can lead a horse to water but,you can't make it google!!!

my pc wont allow me to boot past this page. I cannot get into the bios, i cannot see the POST and i cannot get past this screen.

If you have reset the CMOS memory you need to go into the BIOS setup screen and reconfigure the BIOS. To do that you need to press a key while the computer is booting. Usually F2 but can be other keys. It should tell you on the bottom of the first screen which key to press to enter BIOS setup.

If you don't know the settings the should be one for optimal defaults - use that one. You will also need to reset the time and date.

Save, Exit and re-boot and everything should then work.

Stuart

in your bootable floppy, is your autoexec.bat includes the following :

awdflash.exe 1010-x.bin /py /sn /cc /cp /cd /sb /r

make sure the awdflash.exe you downloaded is dated 5/8/2003.

By the way, once the system is reading the floppy, you need to wait for 2-3 minutes before you will either hear a beep or the system will reboot by itself. (because of the /r switch above). Do not press the power button or the reset button during the process.

i cannot get into the bios via pressing f2 or del keys.

ill try this once more...
awdflash.exe 1010-x.bin /py /sn /cc /cp /cd /sb /r

ive been told to do this in the Autoexec.bat file... this true?

@echo off
cls
a:\awdflash.exe 1010-x.bin /py /sn /cd /cp /cc /R

Yah, looks ok, you don't need the @echo off, that is for you to not seeing the command line during boot up, but you are not able to see anything in the screen anyway. The clearscreen command cls also has no use, it just clear the screen to just a cursor blinking on the top left. What you really need in autoexec.bat is

awdflash.exe 1010-x.bin /py /sn /cc /cp /cd /sb /r

Make sure /sb is there because it is for skip boot block programming. If it is not there and during bios programming the power is somehow turn off then there is a chance that the boot block will be corrupted and you will get a really dead motherboard instead of what you saw :

Award BootBlock BIOS v1.0
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting floppy drive A media...

You can get the above bcos of the boot block.

you can understand more on the switches below :
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/tutorial/article/flash-award-bios

I am not sure but I might have a solution. I have recently found out that some of ASUS motherboards have problems when using more than one memory module. I suppose you are using more than one so try unplugging all but one of them and start.

I have the same exact problem and our systems are almost identical.

Asus A7N8X-X
Athlon XP 3200+
EVGA 6600GT
Soundblaster Live

I was flashing from 1009 to 1010 from dos and after the reboot same message. In my case the floppy doesn't sound like it's being read, light stays on. I will try the autoexec but something tells me it's a deeper problem than that. Pre bios death I did not have a floppy disk drive in the system, I wonder if the bootblock works from CMOS settings? If so it may be unable to see a floppy because it was never setup.