You could have had the bad luck of having two problems at the same
time.  The CMOS error will remain until you can get to the CMOS setup to
correct the values and save them.  If the CPU is not responding to the
keyboard it could also be a bad connector to the keyboard.  I have worked
on machines that through stresses on the keyboard cable, the connector has
cracked the solder joints to the motherboard.  What lights do you see on
the keyboard as you power on?  Any flashes?  Also can you "wiggle" the
cable where it goes into the computer to see if there is any indication of
an intermittent connection?

Doug

At 2/1/2004 10:42 AM, 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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