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. -- Arlen Michaels [log in to unmask] Do you want to signoff PCBUILD or just change to Digest mode - visit our web site: http://nospin.com/pc/pcbuild.html