Quote Originally Posted by jimmyz View Post
It means you made it farther than the 88 part...lol. checksum error defaults loaded is what it means to my board... i get that if i get too crazy. it should come up with a screen to tell you that, try hitting F1 anyway to get to set-up, or F2 to load bios defaults, and continue.... I may be wrong BTW as I didn't look it up but mine has done as I just described, several times. also my 3870 X2 just died this morning and it was doing that then as well. so it may be video initializing.
i didnt have a screen plugged in but when i plugged on in i got that check sum error... yippie my board is working!!! but my e8500 gives me that error '8' ill try a bios flash

what happened to your x2?