This line below suggests that your BIOS battery probably needs replacing.

As far as your data goes......It depends how you reload Windows, I don't see
that as being necessary at this stage, but make backups anyway.




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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Cheyenne Dancer

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It takes multiple bootings to get windows to finally load and when it
begins,
there is an error message that says "CMOS checksum error" and "F1 to load
Defaults" when I hit F1 windows will finally load.

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