I'm having problems booting a 3745 from the internal flash card. The router came from ebay with a 32 Meg internal CF card and booted without any problems. I installed a new Cisco 64 Meg card (part number 16-2647-02) and installed a new version of IOS. The system won't boot from the internal flashcard now. I've tried using both erase and format before coping the image to the CF card. I get different error messages at boot time but the same result, it won't boot up on it's own. If I use the ROMMON boot command it boots and runs just fine from both the internal and slot0 CF cards. I've tried a couple of different IOS versions and the end result is the same. System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(6r) [cmong 6r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. c3745 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled Readonly ROMMON initialized Checksum failed on c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15.T13.bin Expected checksum: e107, calculated checksum: ae5b open: file "c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15.T13.bin" not found open(): Open Error = -1 loadprog: error - on file open boot: cannot load "flash:" System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(6r) [cmong 6r], RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Copyright (c) 2004 by cisco Systems, Inc. c3745 processor with 262144 Kbytes of main memory Main memory is configured to 64 bit mode with parity disabled Checksum error, file not found???? The ROMMON dir command finds the file just fine and it boots just fine from the command line: Readonly ROMMON initialized rommon 1 > dir flash: File size Checksum File name 47411732 bytes (0x2d37214) 0xe107 c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15..T13.bin rommon 2 > show flash: all monitor: command "show" not found rommon 3 > boot flash: boot: cannot determine first executable file name on device "flash:" rommon 4 > boot flash:c3745-adventerprisek9_sna-mz.124-15.T13.bin program load complete, entry point: 0x80008000, size: 0x2d3704c Self decompressing the image : ######################################################################################################################################################################################################################################################### [OK] Smart Init is enabled smart init is sizing iomem ID MEMORY_REQ TYPE 0002F7 0X005F3C00 C3745 Mainboard 0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN 0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN 0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN 0000D8 0X00178610 Dual FE Combo Port Module, 2 WAN 0X00660670 public buffer pools 0X00211000 public particle pools TOTAL: 0X01446AB0 If any of the above Memory Requirements are "UNKNOWN", you may be using an unsupported configuration or there is a software problem and system operation may be compromised. Rounded IOMEM up to: 22Mb. Using 8 percent iomem. [22Mb/256Mb] Restricted Rights Legend Use, duplication, or disclosure by the Government is subject to restrictions as set forth in subparagraph (c) of the Commercial Computer Software - Restricted Rights clause at FAR sec. 52.227-19 and subparagraph (c) (1) (ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS sec. 252.227-7013. cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706 Cisco IOS Software, 3700 Software (C3745-ADVENTERPRISEK9_SNA-M), Version 12..4(15)T13, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc3) Technical Support: [URL]http://www.cisco.com/techsupport[/URL] Copyright (c) 1986-2010 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 07-Apr-10 13:02 by prod_rel_team Image text-base: 0x60008930, data-base: 0x637C2AB0 And it works just fine after the manual boot. Is there something I need to do before or after the format or erase commandon the 3745? I got two of the 64 Meg CF cards, the other I put in a 2691 and it works just fine. Thanks Robert