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. PC works fine just have the date stuck on jan 4 1980.I update it in windows but it reboots back to this date. It keeps the time fine though. But when one day I may really need something critical and I'm screwed I have gone to the motherboards.org looking for a bios update thinking that would solve it, but decided to pursue this route. Any help is greatly appreciated thanks.. Brian PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download visit our download web page at: http://freepctech.com/downloads.shtml