I can't tell you why.  I can tell you what, however, is happening.  NVRAM is
non-volatile ram.  This is the space that holds your CMOS settings.  It can
be either flash, in which case it is holding your default settings, or
battery backup ram, in which case it is holding your prefered cmos saved
settings.  The fix will differ according to which the message is refering
to.  If you flashed your bios recently, I would flash it again, preferably
with a different flash file, even of the same version.  If you have never
flashed the bios, or this problem started well after the flash took place, I
would get a new battery for the motherboard.  You may be able to test the
battery assumption simply by pressing del to enter cmos, check and set
everything, save and exit, (save and exit even if you changed nothing) and
see if the freezes goes away.  If it never freezes under the above
procedure, the battery is weak or dead.  I think it unlikely the NVRAM
module itself is defective, but that is a possibility.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Pamment [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 5:15 PM

Hi
Could someone please explain what this message means and why it might appear
intermediately?
NVRAM update failed
This is occurring at start up on post on a pcchips M810LMR Mobo sometimes
the
update is ok other times it fails
It then goes onto auto detect all hdd and cd roms and then intermediately
either freezes or goes onto boot successfully, regardless of the success or
failure of the NVRAM update.
System is a
800 AMD
512 Meg ram
ATI Radeon VE 32 meg
1x quantum Fireball 40gigs master on pri ide
1x 52xcd rom slave on pri ide
1x Philips PCRW1208 12x8x32 cd re-writer master on sec ide
Memorex MAX1240 DVD drive slave on sec ide
ps/2 keyboard
USB wireless mouse.... Same problem arises even with a normal ps/2 mouse
installed :-(
USB Jopystick
External serial Modem
Running
Win xp
Thanks for any help offered.
Ray Pamment
Crawley in the UK

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