by LoneWolf on Thu Sep 29, 2005 12:00 pm
Even if the clock/CMOS battery is bad, the memory checksum error sounds like a separate issue. Try swapping out the RAM in your system, or if you have more than one memory module, running only one at a time (booting up once with each) to see if the error goes away, and also create a Memtest86 boot disk (do a Google for memtest86) and test all your memory.
As you said in your opening post, PC Chips mainboards are cheap: both in price and in quality. With this in mind, their capacitors likely come from a pretty low bidder. Unless you have other equally cheap parts in your system, if the RAM tests pass the mainboard would be high on my suspect list of parts.
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