[TriLUG] OT: BIOS question

[Owen Berry]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:38:15AM -0500, Owen Berry wrote:
> I recently had to replace the video card in one of our computers after
> the old one went AWOL. The new one has a lot more memory, so I went into
> the BIOS to play with the AGP settings, but decided to read further and
> exited without saving. The computer boots up and works fine, but now
> when I try to go back into the BIOS settings, all I get is a blue bar
> along the bottom of the screen. Anyone seen this before? Think resetting
> the CMOS will sort it out?

BTW, resetting the CMOS did not solve the problem of getting into the
BIOS settings. And now the CPU stepping values have been forgotten and
it thinks I have an 1800 Athlon instead of a 2400. Bah! Any ideas? The
only one I can think of is to try to flash the BIOS.

Owen