[TriLUG] OT: BIOS question

[Owen Berry]

Yes, I did remove the battery, but didn't power it on with the battery
out. I'll give that a go before trying it with another graphics card.

Owen

On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:26:30AM -0500, Tony C wrote:
> 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