I am having a problem booting up. I can still boot up, but I have to press F1. It says
Award plug and play BIOS Extension v1.0A Copyright C 1998 award software inc
IDE primary Master ..... WDC WD134AA
IDE primary Slave..... ATAR CD ROM Drive 48X max
IDE secondary master....none
IDE secondary slave.....none
CMOS checksum error-defaults loaded
2006-11-09 10:30:20 · 3 answers · asked by Slider 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
change the cmos battery, sounds like it's using defaults because it can't remember the settings. i may be wrong
2006-11-09 10:38:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello...is your computer fairly old (more than say, 2-3 years?)
That error message usually means the saved settings in the BIOS were erased...so my guess is the backup battery is dead and it can't retain the settings anymore and you get that message everytime.
You can try going into the BIOS and just saving the settings when you exit and it may not say that anymore. Or you can try changing that backup battery out.
2006-11-09 18:41:19 · answer #2 · answered by Terry 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Change the cmos battery located on your motherboard, then reset your bios for the settings you want.
2006-11-09 19:51:17 · answer #3 · answered by R W 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋