Cmos Died RE. landed in Bios

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Hi Rainy,

Changing the battery will sometimes reset the BIOS to its default values,
though if you do it quickly it will not. Unless you have modified the
settings, you do not need to worry about resetting the BIOS values.

What do you mean by this?

"CMOS just died... hardly anything is loading with windows.. I went to
msconfig and not much is loading."

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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"Rainy" <rainydays38@sweetwrapz.net> wrote in message
newskCpG$UaFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> CMOS just died... hardly anything is loading with windows.. I went to
> msconfig and not much is loading... so someone told me all i have to do is
> replace the battery and I know which kind it is.. as I have the
> motherboard Users manual.. but someone said in this group that after
> replacing the battery.. I have to reset the bios?? I have no clue how to
> do that.. sounds like for a simple battery this is going to cost me some
> money for a tech.. money which I don't have.. also how do I get avg
> to go to the taskbar.. does anyone know.. right now it's not there..
> pretty scary.. Rainy
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics (More info?)

CMOS/BIOS are the same thing....they have nothing to do with what Windows
loads via MS Config. CMOS/BIOS control the hardware, not Windows.

Besides, the less that loads in MS Config, the better I say. Less
clutter/background programs means better performance all round.

Change the battery (nothing more than one of those silver watch battery
types - the large ones usually.

Resetting the BIOS, that is just a matter of pressing "DEL" immediately you
see the BIOS splash screen or the BIOS info about your hardware etc (if
stuff you see on screen when the PC first starts - a RAM test etc), you will
go into a screen *usually* blue like those old MS DOS appliacation
screens...various options in there to change various things....if you don't
remember what settings you had previously, I doubt the 'default' settings
will harm the system.



"Rainy" <rainydays38@sweetwrapz.net> wrote in message
newskCpG$UaFHA.3400@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> CMOS just died... hardly anything is loading with windows.. I went to
> msconfig and not much is loading... so someone told me all i have to do is
> replace the battery and I know which kind it is.. as I have the
> motherboard Users manual.. but someone said in this group that after
> replacing the battery.. I have to reset the bios?? I have no clue how to
> do that.. sounds like for a simple battery this is going to cost me some
> money for a tech.. money which I don't have.. also how do I get avg
> to go to the taskbar.. does anyone know.. right now it's not there..
> pretty scary.. Rainy
>