Brian,

Unfortunately, if you are following the directions and the machine still
refuses to go into the BIOS, a flash update may be your only option.  You
"might" try resetting the BIOS using the jumper, but chances are if you
replaced the battery and that didn't work, your out of luck without
flashing.

Kyle Elmblade
Distinct Computer Solutions
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From: "Brian Gay" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, January 04, 1980 10:52 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] still cannot access bios/cmos to fix date


> 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.
<<snip>>
> Brian

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