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First post, by Carrera

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Hi Guys,
My mother in law has an ancient SIS board with a Cyrix CPU and 64 MB of SDRAM (PC100 running at 66 MHz).
She recently told me that about every third time she boots she gets the :
CHECKSUM ERROR
All settings set to Default
Press F1 to continue
My first reaction was given the computer ist over 5 years old and still has a battery is that the battery is dying.
I told her to leave the computer on for a day or two in the hopes it would recharge.
The problem is it has been YEARS since I've seen such an error.
Could it also be a memory problem?
Anything else to check?
Thanks in advance...

Reply 4 of 9, by Qbix

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cmos batteries are almost never recharchable. anyway a recharchable battery looses it capacity after a long time.

But maybe you could convince the person in question to update the bios ?

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Reply 6 of 9, by Qbix

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well a new battery might fix those errors then
if the data can't be preserved it's only logical that they mess up and that results in checksum errors

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Reply 8 of 9, by Qbix

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they're not completely standardized
usualy it's a cr2032

But why not take it out and take it with you to the shop.

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