On 23 Oct 98 at 11:37, Jacobs, Laurie wrote:

> Last night on my PC at home I was playing about with a program for changing
> BIOS settings (I think it was called TWEAK~219 or something similar)
> Anyway, now the PC won't load. It goes past "Press DEL to Setup" but doesn't
> get as far as reading floppy or hard disk.
> I've tried pressing DEL and going in and resetting all the BIOS settings to
> the original defaults but it still won't load.
> What can I do now ?

> Will removing the CMOS battery reset everything ?

  Yes.  The purpose of this program is to change settings that are
stored in CMOS, but which are not accessible through the setup
utility provided by the manufacturer.  It's quite reasonable that the
"reset to default" selection(s) don't reset such items.

  Note that on most recent motherboards, you don't have to physically
remove the battery.  There should be a normally-open jumper (check
your manual) which completely wipes the CMOS when closed for a few
seconds.

David G

                                  -----
                PCBUILD mailing list -  http://nospin.com
         Bob Wright:[log in to unmask] - Drew Dunn:[log in to unmask]