EISA - was VLB SCSI?

From: Allison <ajp166_at_bellatlantic.net>
Date: Fri Nov 2 07:24:00 2001

Bad nicad for the CMOS, It's loosing a bit here or ther and checksumming.
That forces a bios error.

I had two like that, replaced the nicad and Viola!

Allison

-----Original Message-----
From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, November 02, 2001 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: EISA - was VLB SCSI?


>re-read what he said..... he isn't loosing the configuration, it justs
>wants attention. I have had this happen before too. I just change
>things until it stops :-) I think something gets crossed up when
>changing things around too much, and it asks for F1 to be pressed. You
>can start over from scratch by pulling the battery..... I have had to do
>that once or twice when I really screwed things up, to the point that it
>hung while the bios was loading :-)
>
>Chad Fernandez
>Michigan, USA
>
>Mike Ford wrote:
>>
>> >Hmmm, that reminds me:
>> >
>> >I have an EISA Compaq 486sx at a client site from which I had to remove
>> >an add-on internal modem; ran the diagnostic/configuration program, it
>> >says everything's fine, but when it boots it stops waiting for F1 saying
>> >the configuration's incorrect. Press F1 to continue & everything works,
>> > just a nuisance 'cause it can't restart after a power failure without
>> >someone there to press F1.
>> >Any ideas?
>>
>> Check the cmos battery.
>
Received on Fri Nov 02 2001 - 07:24:00 GMT