[expert] Mandrake 8.2/9.0 bad cmos checksum error

[Joseph Stegner]

Here's the problem I had with 8.2, for those who don't remember:   For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the 8.2 release version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and the BIOS tries to initialize communication with the hard drives, it will hang - the busy led tells me something is going on, but nothing happens.  After waiting for a minute or so, I'll get either "Bad CMOS checksum, default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of that nature.  Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS.  With Win2k and Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.   I'm running on an A7M266-M (Asus board OEM'd for HP configurable comps) with the latest BIOS version 3.33 for Bermuda/BoraBora boards, Tbird 1.4 Ghz Athlon, 256 MB PC2100 DDR, Geforce 2 GTS 64 MB DDR, SB Live! Value, and the hard drives are a 40GB 5400 Seagate and a 20 GB 7200 Maxtor, the Maxtor being the one where I'm putting 8.2 on (if I can ever get it to work :).   And now, 9.0 is doing the same thing...yet 8.1 boots and reboots just fine.  Win2k reboots just fine.  Other CD installers, such as my Win2k CD, reboot just fine.  So what could possibly cause this sort of problem?   I probably am more of a newbie than expert, but I wasn't getting any responses to this problem on the newbie list.   Again, any help would be more than appreciated.   Joe