Re: BookPC with CMOS problems

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: Kit(?) : Your CMOS battery (Part # CR2032) is dead requires replacing. Your symptoms indicate this. : Apparently BookPCs chew these batteries if you have long periods of no power to the unit. : Hope this helps. : JB : : I'm hoping this is not an isolated problem and that others might have seen : : it before. : : I have a BookPC with an AMD K6-2 processor and 32Meg of memory. It was working : : just fine for a long time but now I can't get it too boot properly into : : Windows. I think it is a CMOS related problem. When I boot the machine it : : tells me that there is a checksum CMOS error. It resets the default settings : : and asks me if I want to continue (press F1) or go into the CMOS setup : : (press DEL). : : If I go into the CMOS settings and either set things by hand or hit F7 to set : : the optimal settings or do minimal settings, the results are the same. When : : I reboot, it gives me the same message about a CMOS checksum error. : : If I hit F1 to continue, it boots as far as the Win98 screen but never goes : : any further. If I don't let it boot all the way, but go into safe mode, it : : lets me go into windows but without a lot of the drivers, such as the CD-ROM, : : sound, etc. I can check my hard drive, go into settings in the control panel : : and look around, but I can find nothing wrong. I don't think this a software : : or registery problem. : : Has anyone seen this CMOS problem before? How can I get around it? : : Thanks, : : Kit

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