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CMOS PROBLEM....
Name: Mighty Reds Date: July 6, 2002 at 18:44:39 Pacific
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i have a M810 series motherboard which is a T-bird and AMD duron 800. recently im having a problem, whenever i boot up, no display on the screen,then i have to reset the bios jumper into default and then it can boot up but with the error msg "CMOS BATTERY LOW, CMOS MEMORY INCORRECT." . then i will have to load the most optimum setting inorder to go into windows.but when i shut it down and restart again, no display again and i will have to reset the jumper again and again.Could someone help me out? thanks...
Name: Mighty Reds Date: July 6, 2002 at 20:22:32 Pacific
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u can get my motherboard specification here http://www.pcchips.com/index2.html look for M810LMR. can someone help up? plsss...
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Response Number 6
Name: borelli33 Date: July 6, 2002 at 22:50:23 Pacific
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NO, not battery and not CMOS chip. You are setting the optimum settings and that will get you past the POST but you have to thell the CMOS/BIOS to continue and so it does...until the next time when it sees the problem itself and no longer needs to know if it is ok to continue. Use the BIOS defaults but not the optimum settings the other defaults (this is often worded as safe or setup defaults). If that works then make changes to tweak the BIOS settings descriminately. i.e. change settings on only one page at a time so you can pin point the setting conflict. The most likely problem is that memory speed or memory cacheing conflicts with other existing hardware. Also check settings in you PCI page. memory bursting on the PCI bus on any design other than an Intel chip can cause this kind of behavior for example. The bottom line is, use the safest default settings you have available to you and once that boots consistantly without problems then make a limited number of changes until you narrow down what the problem is. I am rather certain, however, that you will find it to be and actual BIOS setting not in the hardware (chips) themselves.
borelli33
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Response Number 7
Name: Mighty Reds Date: July 7, 2002 at 06:43:23 Pacific
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i've got a brand new cmos battery on it and it's still not working. one weird thing is that it kept on detecting that new hardware found which is unknown devices and it's a PCI card. i deleted it, reset jumper and it comes back again. i tried to load BIOS default settings and it manages to go into windows but when i shut down and restart again, same story again and it doesnt display anything on the screen. then i will have to reset jumper , clear BIOS and it will display CMOS BATTERY LOW, CMOS MEMORY SIZE WRONG. If it's setting conflicts, format and reinstall everything will help?
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