[TriLUG] OT: BIOS question

[Tony C]

Did you remove the cmos battery? I usually remove the cmos battery and power
the pc on for a min, power off then put the battery back works for me. Flashing
may be helpful too if its dated.

On 2/13/07, Owen Berry <oberry at trilug.org> wrote:
> 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
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