It's been a long long time since I was under the hood of a computer - so this evening's been quite the refresher course - and I've come up against one of those problems I never had to deal with before... and I'm stumped.

Essentially, my friend's old Mesh machine "died" a while back - but in a fit of pro-active-ness he's brought it up to me, dumping it on the coffee table saying "it's yours if you can get it fixed".

So I set to plugging in the molex into his 6800 to kill the continuous post beep thinking I was ready to celebrate the minor victory - but alas no post. So I unplug the power, remove the CMOS battery, clear the CLRTC jumpers, reconnect the power, fire it up, post, get into BIOS, fiddle with the boot priorities, rub my hands in childish "new toy" glee and then sump into my seat defeated by the good old "CMOS Checksum Bad" error, as described in near the exact same way HERE

But alas, what's absent from that Tom's Hardware help thread, and (funnily enough) from hifidelity's thread HERE - is how to actually flash a bios - which that OP (and hifidelity) may have known backward - but which this forumite has never, ever, done.

So, a little help?

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1605&page=4

Any help?

Yup.

Okay so I guess I could've googled...

Now to find a floppy disk someplace.

Won't it do it off a CD?

So far the machine's not taking to reading the recovery CD...

try a live linux cd/usb distro
that way you should be able to update the BIOS online ...

My issue was caused by a bad stick of RAM - What mobo do you have - Gigabyte maybe??

I did not need to flash the BIOS in the end once I replacved the memory (and cleaed the BIOS / CMOS) I was able to boot up to the backup BIOS and then get it ti write over the corrupt one

Try going to only 1 stick of memory