I did a dumb thing tonight I was working on a Packerd Bell, and found a utility at there web site for fixing ide conficts, but in looking at the disk ran a file called clear cmos it did just that. I thought it was a readme file. The packerd bell comes up no operating system. It also gives me know bios to enter. Will not even light the floppy did that program kill the bios chip is there a way to get it back, or order a new one. Did the same thing on my computer, but it lets me in the bios so as you see I am running. I do have one problem though. When booting it says CPU is unworkable, or has been changed please recheck CPU soft menu. Do not know what CPU soft menu is. Award Modular BIOS V4.51 PC , Green PCI/ISA Pentium ODP-MMX CPU at 180 Mhz. Award Plug & Play BOIS extension v1.08. Thought this computer was running at 200Mhz this happened. Sorry for being so dumb. Thank You in advance PCBUILD's List Owner's: Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>