On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:07 am, David Sexton wrote:
> Here is the problems I have a Dell Inispron 4000 series the and of cores
> the mother board is bad but every thing works fine except the system bios
> dues not keep time. No problem I don't mind the clock time being wrong but
> every time it boots up it finds my network card and wireless network card
> also. So it keeps screwing up my network settings and I have to keep
> copying the configuration for the wireless card over every time I want to
> use it.
>
> Dose any one have any idea how to fix this problem? Besides replacing the
> mother board maybe a permission change would that work?
Hello,
Does this only happen in, and because of, Linux? Since your clock resets on
boot-up, and your BIOS configuration settings are not saved, you might have a
dead CMOS battery, which is just that bit cheaper to replace than a
motherboard.
Regards,
_nasturtium
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