Maybe it's a bad keyboard?  Or, could also be a bad motherboard.  I'd
try a known good keyboard and see what happens.

Tony Mayer



Randy Worstell wrote:

> Alright ...  My machine has been "losing time" for a while and then I got
> the error message...  So I took out the old cmos battery,  round printed on
> the back it says  "MAXELL  CR2032 3V +"  AND  I replaced with a new DURACELL
> same numbers looks the same and booted up but I still hang on the cmos error
> message.
> Can not use the key board to f1 or delete so I am still stuck.  Do I need to
> flash the bios?

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