Sounds like your CMOS battery has gone dead. Some CMOS batteries are user
replaceable and some are soldered onto the motherboard by the manufacturer.
The best way to find out, if you dont have you rmanuals handy, is to open up
teh case and look on the motherboard for a either a "supersized" watch
battery, a barrel shaped battery or a square battery that is mounted on the
back panel of the computer with wires running to the motherboard.

If you can't seem to find any of the batteries, I would suggest hunting for
the manual that came with your PC or referring to the manufacturer of your
PC for help.

-Rafael

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Jun Qian
Sent: Thursday, July 01, 1999 5:17 AM
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Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Computer Randomly Won't Recognize Hard Drive


Try to change the Bettery on mobo, sometimes the bettery runs low power so
it wouldn't keep info.

J Qian

Keith Markfield wrote:

> Basically, my friend's comp. just hung as the hard drive would not
recognize.  I rebooted and had it automatically detect the hard drive but it
seems to have happened again.  Once I had it auto detect, Windows booted
successfully adn I was able to move about normally, but once it was shut
down, chaos re-occured.  Do you suppose that there is a virus or something
along those lines???  Please help!!  Thanks!
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