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emachines cmos error
Name: speaky Date: November 14, 2005 at 09:54:57 Pacific OS: windows xp home CPU/Ram: pentium 2.8 512 mb ram
Comment:
we bought our emachines from pc world and the motherboard battry went so a person from pc world came out and changed it now a month later it has gone again and the warrenty is out of date so i changed the battry and i keep getting this error cmos checksum error defaults loaded but the new battry is keeping the system time and the bios is not losing its setting how come i keep getting this error.
Name: plainandsimple Date: November 14, 2005 at 10:17:42 Pacific
Reply:
After installing the battery did you reset the BIOS settings ?
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Response Number 2
Name: ham30 Date: November 14, 2005 at 12:42:40 Pacific
Reply:
If it's keeping correct time after being shut down for a while and you aren't losing the settings, it would seem that it's a false error. It would probably require replacing the motherboard to fix the problem. Since it's out of warranty, you might just have to live with the annoying message.
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Response Number 3
Name: speaky Date: November 14, 2005 at 14:02:46 Pacific
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