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| Thread ID: 76221 | 2007-01-25 04:05:00 | CMOS error | jonkimnicko (10061) | Press F1 |
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| 519089 | 2007-01-25 04:05:00 | what is meant by cmos error-defaults loaded? it appears in booting my pc...it says that press f1 to continue...and when im on the desktop, my time and date setttings are displayed w/ its factory settings.. e.g. time to day is 8pm, thursday 2007 then after the cmos error, it becomes 1 january 2002....how would i fix this? | jonkimnicko (10061) | ||
| 519090 | 2007-01-25 04:26:00 | Might be a flat CMOS battery. Or the date / time / year maybe wrong in the BIOS. Change the CMOS battery and set the BIOS back to its default settings / then reconfigure the settings in the BIOS. And don't forget to change the date in the BIOS, to the present date as well. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 519091 | 2007-01-25 04:29:00 | It means that the BIOS settings have been lost. This can mean that the little backup cell has died, or it "just happened". You will get that error message until you use the BIOS setup routine, and do an "Exit with Save". When it says : "Press F1 to continue", does it give an alternative e.g. "F2 to enter Setup"? If so, do that. There may be another key to enter the setuip routine; of course use whatever is the right one. :D The message you get just means that it has loaded default settings so the computer will work, and set the date and time to some arbitrary values. You can set the date and time to correct values in the setup routine; but you don't have to ... you can just do a save and exit, and set the date and time in Windows. Ifg this error happens again (usually after the computer has been turned off for some hours) or the date and time drift when it is off, that will mean that the little backup cell is dead. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 519092 | 2007-01-25 04:35:00 | you can just do a save and exit, and set the date and time in Windows. Umm this doesn't always work. (ie: If u want to synchronise the time). I found that out a few weeks ago. The clock in BIOS was at the default 2002 I think. I changed the time in Windows, but if u go to synchronise the time in Windows, it couldn't, as there was too much of a diff between the time in the BIOS and the time in XP. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 519093 | 2007-01-25 04:40:00 | Can you not set the time, rather than "synchronise" it? I thought that when you set the time and date in DOS the OS would then set the hardware clock to conform. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 519094 | 2007-01-25 04:43:00 | i can set the time and syncronize it...maybe i might just replace the battery... | jonkimnicko (10061) | ||
| 519095 | 2007-01-25 04:58:00 | I thought that when you set the time and date in DOS the OS would then set the hardware clock to conform. So did I, but obviously if u want to synchronise it as well, it doesn't work. If there's too much of a diff between the BIOS time and the time in XP /Windows. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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