On 28 Jan 00 at 1:20, Mark David Roth wrote:
>>-Dale Mentzer replied:
>>-If you replace your battery and still have problems after you
>>-reconfigure your BIOS setup for your drive(s) then you might want to
>>-explore the possibility of some sort of CMOS virus (AntiCMOS, for
>>-example) that might be corrupting your BIOS when you boot. BTW, you
>>-can get CMOS battery replacment holders that use regular AA alkaline
>>-batteries and then you won't be needing to get any special batteries.
>>
>>I put together a 6 volt battery pack and hooked it up according to the
>>instructions in the manual. Every time I turned the machine of it lost all
>>the CMOS settings. It wasn't until I disconnected the battery pack that it
>>would save the the settings during shutdown. Did I hook up the battery
>>backwards or what. The manual said pin 1 6 volts, pin 2 not used, pin 3 and
>>4 ground. I attached the positive side of the battery to pin 1 and the
>>negative side to pins 3 and 4.
The only thing I can suggest is to connect the battery "backwards"
from the way the manual says and see if that works. Otherwise, I am
out of ideas.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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