CMOS Bad?

[TheBishop]

I picked up a 1 gig PC from work today after they got new faster PC in. The IT guy pulled the memory from the PC but said it was working OK before.
I had unused pc133 and put them in.
When I turn on the PC I get a CMOS Bad error.

What does that mean?

The system was working before unless he sparked the motherboard during the memory removal.

How do you change, or correct the CMOS error if the PC fails to start or turn on?

Thanks

 

[TheBishop]

Sorry, I just looked again, the error says CMOS Checksum Bad.

What can I do to correct this?

 

[bengal85]

yeah the CMOS is bad on my laptop but it doesnt bither me to much

 

[TheBishop]

My PC stops at the point of CMOS bad and hangs. It will not start.

What can I do Now?

 

[The_Other_One]

Since it's an old machine, I'd first check the CMOS battery. A weak battery can cause checksum errors.

 

[ZeroWing]

My PC stops at the point of CMOS bad and hangs. It will not start.

What can I do Now?

http://www.tech-faq.com/cmos-checksum-bad-error.shtml

 

[TheBishop]

Nothing works

I removed the CMOS battery for two days and restarted the system with a new battery but I still get a CMOS Checksum Bad error, and the system halts.

If I restart same thing, system halted with CMOS Checksum BAd.

I read the links on CMOS but nothing helps. I took a different hard drive and reformatted it with XP and restarted but still get the CMOS BAD eror. There are no jumpers on my motherboard.

Trash can is the next step.........

 

[fmw]

Sounds like your company got its money's worth out of that system.