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On Fri, 4 Jan 1980 22:52:14-- Brian wrote:
Hi Brian,
Try removing the 40 pin hard drive ribbon cable and boot the machine. You
should get harddrive failer message and a message that tells you how to
enter setup. If not, the cmos is corrupted and needs to be replaced.
I don't believe a bios update will help because access to setup is firmware
which is set by the manufacturer.
mike michel
PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List wrote:
> Hello all , I have a good one for you,
> I own an emachines emonster 500a and I cannot get into cmos to save
my
> life(american megatrends version 1.04 oct 99). I have tried every
keyboard
> stroke "delete", f1-12, escape, control alt escape, control alt enter,
even
> control alt delete. I hit all these keys right after it boots and counts
> the Ram, and no luck, it looks for the cd then a drive, then boots from
> ide-0. then windows loads. the website says to hit the delete key after
the
> elogo comes up, I quit getting that logo during the boot process quite
> sometime ago, never thought about it till now. I even replaced the cmos
> battery thinking this would fix it. Nope.
> PC works fine just have the date stuck on jan 4 1980.I update it in
> windows but it reboots back to this date. It keeps the time fine though.
> But when one day I may really need something critical and I'm screwed I
> have gone to the motherboards.org looking for a bios update thinking that
> would solve it, but decided to pursue this route. Any help is greatly
> appreciated thanks.. Brian
>
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