Hi Venkat -

The LS-120 option is a type of removable disk.  The disks have the same 
dimensions as 1.44 meg floppies, but they can hold 120 meg.  The drives 
can also read the regular 1.44 and 720 meg disks.

The problem with your battery is harder to diagnose.  I would still lean 
towards a defective battery, but there could be other things draining 
the battery.  For example, do you have a "wake on LAN" option enabled?  
That could cause a drain on the battery.


Tony Mayer


Venkat Viswanathan wrote:
> Hi to all,
>
> I am having a very unusual problem and any help will be greatly appreciat
> ed.
>
> the system has a very old mobo made by PC PARTNER with intel 810 chipsets
> . the current o/s is win 98se. to go back a little, someone had earlier i
> nstalled win xp pro (after disabling all on board video, sound, usb ports
> ,.. and installing pci cards for video,sound, usb...).since it was giving
>  frequent problems after that i got hold of it and decided the mobo will 
> simply not support win xp pro.
>
> formatted the hdd, found out the drivers for on board video,sound usb etc
> , and installed win 98 se with 256 mb of ram which it originally had and 
> all the drivers. ( the low momory could have been one of the reasons for 
> it's earlier problems with xp pro)
>
> the bios is award modular version 6.00PG (energy star ally) and bios -N-4
> M (2K000314)
>
> the boot options are, floppy, cdrom, hdd 0, 1, 2, 3, SCSI, ZIP, LAN, LS 1
> 20 and disabled (not in this order). I have set it to floppy, cdrom, hdd0
>  in that order.
> it has only one hdd.
>
> in the " integrated peripherals " menu there is an item " initial disply 
> first" and the options are onboard / pci slot. i have set this to onboard
> . in fact all the pci slots are mow empty.
>
> now the questions...
>
> (1) what is LS 120 in the boot menu options?.
>
> (2) after i shut down the system for the day and start up next day or whe
> never the post msg shows a checksum error and defaults loaded. this happe
> ns every day. the date goes back to jan 1st 2000 and the LS 120 boot opti
> on appears either second or third in rank, and the initial display revert
> s back to pci slot. if i press f1 to continue the video comes on fine but
>  the dates get messed up and my avg antivirus task bar icon goes black be
> cause of the wrong dates
>
> (3) i tried changing the cmos battery twice but still same problem.
>
> (4) i have of course saved my settings whenever i enter bios after the ch
> ecksum error.
>
> (5) why are the bios settings not getting saved?. cmos chipset fried or g
> oing that way?
>
> (6) other than this the system runs fine and is mainly used for e-mail, s
> urfing, some word processing, card games (not on line)etc 
>
> thanks and good day to all---Venkat
>
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