I have a computer that wont go into cmos to setup the harddrive. I get a harddrive and floppy drive failure at startup. I know the h/d has the right jumpers and that it is working properly. Is there a way to reinstall cmos or disable it and reenable it? I have nothing on the h/d that i cant lose. Thanks MArques

Howdy, Well is the hard drive running off of a controller card? Are you sure the hard drive is good? Some of the tricks of the trade to getting into setup are removing RAM, beating on the keyboard until it gives ya a error and ask if you want to enter setup, and I don't mean beat it hard, just press all the keys with you're hands when its booting up, you would be suprised how well this works. There is really no way to disable the CMOS, you can remove the BIOS/ROM chip from the motherboard if you can but that doesn't mean it will clear it. You can also try shorting out the jumper, this sometimes works as well. If ya have any more questions, just e-mail me. Laters, Kevin The Tech Dude helpme@windrivers.net

Another option is changing the battery. do you know the hard drive setings no heads, cylinders, type no etc? find out before you do this.

All of the other suggestions are valid, but some of the older computers require a setup disk to access the bios setup. HP, Compaq & IBM PS/2 are this way. Good luck!

Sometimes my AMIBIOS doesn't give me a chance, it just goes on its merry way, when this happens I keep 'DEL' depressed when it reboots until I get in.

is their a software program to use for reseting the cmos in a p120. lost bat and lost ide controller and cdrom controller. need to know how to do this, any info would be helpfull thanks mike