cmos start problem

[maddogatc]

Suddenly my sons computer would not start up correctly. On start up the the cmos check looks weird. The letters are all jumbled, backwards, unreadable. Almost like a form of foreign lanquage. I can enter the bios but it looks the same. No beeping at all on start up. Computer worked fine untill suddenly the other afternoon. I added a picture of the initial boot screen for added information. Has the cmos battery died and need replacing?

Asus P4S533
P4 2.8
Asus 9600xt video card
2 x 40gb harddrives
Sound blaster live
2 x 512mb kingston ram memory
cd burner
cd rom drive
floppy

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[gomerpile]

sounds like a inuit hook on bootup this is caused from a bug in the hd and loading in the inuit 13 or 15, usually a dead cmos battry will not cause a problem execpt everytime you boot the bios defaults will be loaded.
or the power to the system is not stable, sounds like a inuit boot virus and it is very hard to get this problem solved.

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[fishmahn]

It could be a dead CMOS battery. It could also just be corrupted. Try doing a cmos reset and see if that helps.

Mike.

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