On Tuesday, December 8, Harvey Rose <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I'm working on a 286 computer and can't get it ot go into CMOS. I was told
> use the DEL key. This doesn't work. What comes up is "Keyboard stuck key
> failure."
>
This just means it's seeing your DEL keypress during startup, when it isn't
expecting any keys to be held down.  Nothing's broken.

> Also it gives me "Invalid configuration information - please run
> SETUP program."
> "Time-of-day not set - please run SETUP program. Strike the F1 key to
> continue."
>
And these are both just saying the CMOS settings don't check out, probably
because the battery went flat.

As others have suggested, there was probably a setup program originally
supplied on a floppy.  There are "generic" cmos setup utilities around, that
might work.  I'll try to find one tonight and send it to you.

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