After replacing my cmos battery, I started getting the above message on my screen at startup. I have a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop with Windows Vista. I've tried everything I can find on the subject. So far, no luck.
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When you removed the battery that kept the cmos settings and replaced it, the power loss will cause the bios to revert back to default settings. Is there a floppy drive in your computer? I doubt it, and it is looking for one. The bios is unable to find a floppy drive and you get the error. You need to enter the bios, dell I believe is F2 key when you first turn on the unit, when the unit is first powered on it will tell which F-key to get into the bios. tab down to the hard ware/devices, floppy diskette will be there, turn it off/disable it. I forget the menu, but you also need to turn off "seek floppy diskette on startup" or similar wording.
Forgot to say, your problem is in the bios settings, and has nothing to do with Vista, so making changes in Vista will not solve your problem.
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