On 1 Feb 00 at 23:48, (null) wrote:
>>Hi Arachnids,
>>
>>my question is absolutely out of discussion on Arachne-mailinglist, but I
>>noticed from the last postings, that a lot of bios-gurus (cmos-battery...)
>>are on this list. So please don't blame me..
>>
>>My bios print's out following message while the booting procedure:
>>
>>"CMOS system options not set"
>>
>>The system is a old 386 machine, so maybe it has something to do with
>>a possibly empty battery..
>>
>>Any comments are much welcome!
If you enter the BIOS setup program, enter the settings then select
the option to save settings, does the system reboot without this
message? If the answer is yes, then probably the battery is dead. If
you still get the message then perhaps a jumper (if there are any) is
not set correctly. HTH.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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