cisco 2821 software forced crash

[Farooq Muhammad]

HI all,

I have a cisco 2821 router in rommon and displaying the message '' softwre forced crash '' and '' checksum error'' .I tried to do rommon tftpdnld but as the image is self decompressing into the ram it again crashes with the same error although i have done it with various valid ios but in vain.Any body help plz.

[Leo Laohoo]

I have a cisco 2821 router in rommon and displaying the message '' softwre forced crash '' and '' checksum error'' .

This means your IOS is corrupt.  Go to the Cisco website and download the IOS file again.  Before loading into the router/CF make sure you check the MD5 hash.  IF it doesn't match then it's still corrupt or incomplete.