Really sounds like a dead or dying CMOS battery. I have one doing the same
thing, except mine put me into the setup when I tried to run it.
Good Luck
Bernie wrote:
> Today (finally) my dad came home with the computer I "grew up on" ;)
> Anyway, it's been 4 years (I knew I had lefta a note in the computer that
> said what years it was and it was 1996). Anyway, what I was wondering was
> that sometimes (I've booted it 4 times already <g>) it tells me there's
> something wrong with the CMOS (and no one has touched the machine). Since I
> have no idea on how to get into the BIOS on this machine I was wondering if
> anyone has any idea.
>
> Technical data:
>
> Toshiba laptop - T3100/20
> AT 8 MHz
> HD 20MB
> RAM 640KB + 2MB EMS
> 1 floppy 720KB
> EGA card
> CGA Plasma screen
> EGA connector (how do I connect it with a VGA monitor?)
> 1 COM port
> 1 LPT port
> 1 place for an extension card
> 1 place for an extra floppy
>
> I looked at the Toshiba site yesterday but couldn't find much (neither did
> google give me much except a mail from someone who had the same problem not
> that long ago (no apparent help from there yet, but I have mailed him)).
>
> Sadly I've must have removed most of my old BATch files from the HD :/
>
> Anyway, now I'm atleast movable (to say I'm free to go anywere I want would
> be to overdo it since it's not that light - but I did carry it on my back
> to school once in 1995).
> //Bernie
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