Yes, I did remove the battery, but didn't power it on with the battery out. I'll give that a go before trying it with another graphics card.
Owen On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:26:30AM -0500, Tony C wrote: > Did you remove the cmos battery? I usually remove the cmos battery and power > the pc on for a min, power off then put the battery back works for me. > Flashing > may be helpful too if its dated. > > On 2/13/07, Owen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:38:15AM -0500, Owen Berry wrote: > >> I recently had to replace the video card in one of our computers after > >> the old one went AWOL. The new one has a lot more memory, so I went into > >> the BIOS to play with the AGP settings, but decided to read further and > >> exited without saving. The computer boots up and works fine, but now > >> when I try to go back into the BIOS settings, all I get is a blue bar > >> along the bottom of the screen. Anyone seen this before? Think resetting > >> the CMOS will sort it out? > > > >BTW, resetting the CMOS did not solve the problem of getting into the > >BIOS settings. And now the CPU stepping values have been forgotten and > >it thinks I have an 1800 Athlon instead of a 2400. Bah! Any ideas? The > >only one I can think of is to try to flash the BIOS. > > > >Owen -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
