Summary: Does anyone know where I can buy a CMOS battery. She has an old LP-210 motherboard that she purchased from Compudyne but I haven't had luck in findin...
Summary: Many old motherboards have a socket to plug in a replacement battery. Did a quick search and these sound promising: http://www.cablesnmor.com/batteri...
Summary: I have an old compudyne notebook 386sl 20mhz 32-bit processor.My laptop will not boot from the A drive. It recognizes the A drive but will not boot fr...
Summary: Hi, Have no experience with notebooks, but seems like your CMOS battery is bad and CMOS lose hard drive and floppy drive parameters. Try to enter CMOS...
Summary: Hello, This error message indicates CMOS battery failure. Soldered in batteries can leak, corrode and ruin the motherboard. Plug-ins are better. Rep...
Summary: Hi, Yup, I second the battery idea too, espeacially if the CMOS battery on your 486 is original equipment. If you're lucky, the battery on the motherb...
Summary: All the CMOS battery does is allow the settings to be saved when the machine is powered off. If you can restore the CMOS values, either from memory a...
Summary: For those of you that still own (or have obtained) a Compaq Contura 4/25 (Non-Aero), there may be hope for your original battery pack. I had previousl...
Summary: I have an old att 386 computer 16mhz using a acumos desktop bios ver 2.12.02 , i had to replace the cmos battery, when i rebooted everthing was confi...
Summary: Card isn't programmable... this one is set by jumpers only. And the conflict remains with the card removed. I'm starting to wonder: if I disconnect...
Summary: Your cmos battery is probably dead & you need to replace it. This has happened to me. Just open up the case. (Wont hurt anything) & write down the har...
Summary: I think that the previous owners did expand it because it searches for memory twice and finds it both times. They must have upgraded the board because...
Summary: there may be a kludge. if you can disconnect the cmos battery and boot without it, the system may load the defaults. normally the battery can't be dis...
Summary: Your hdd settings have probably been lost due to dying cmos battery. Enter the Bios change the settings to match the hdd-there may be an auto detect o...
Summary: You're welcome. Have a look at the Standard CMOS screen. There's a section in there for floppy drives. If your battery does quit in the future, use th...
Summary: Yeah, sounds like the HDD or its controller have gone bad - or - the CMOS settings for the HDD aren't correct, assuming it's an older machine (do lap...
Summary: See if your hard drive is being detected - it's pretty self explanatory. If it's not, then - depending on the computer (386, 486 etc - which for some ...
Summary: Here an answer from a Thinkpad 770 user! The 161 163 error is a very common error on these machines as I have found out. Many people on the net have t...
Summary: WARNING ABOUT LEAKING BATTERIES AND MAINBOARDS THAT SET FIRE SPONTANIOUSLY! Yesterday a mainboard of mine went up in flames again. It was the second t...
Summary: I have an old NEC Versa V/50 laptop w/Win 3.1 Dos 6.22 I bought for $10 recently just for journaling and letter writing. It has a 1.44MB - 3.5 floppy...
Summary: SoftPaq for that machine should be sp0308.zip and should be located here: http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/obsolete_diagnostics.html As stated ...
Summary: I have been playing with a bunch of old computers lately and have experienced boot problems that seem strange like your problem. #1 solution* has been...
Summary: Um, you can't reinstall Windows until you can start your OS (DOS). You really can't do much of anything until your machine recognizes the hard drive....
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