Re: CMOS Checksum Error

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From: Duncan Thomas
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <NdrUiHAoHa91EwFF@saints1.demon.co.uk>, Gary Purvis
<gary@saints1.demon.co.uk> writes
>A friend of mine is running a P233 with Win98 and American Megatrends
>BIOS. Whenever the pc is hard booted, it recognizes the HDD, CD, etc,
>then says 'CMOS Checksum Error - Press F1 to Continue' . Once booted up
>it seems to work fine, except that the date has to be reset. Can anybody
>suggest a reason for this annoying little fault?
>
>BTW.. the CMOS battery has been replaced.

You could try just going into bios setup, and selecting 'save settings'.
This somethings fixes this problem. Dunno why.
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Date: 1998/09/09
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