First post, by Brawndo
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I have an Acer AP43 486 motherboard with an Intel DX4 CPU which upon POST, displays the following:

The only things connected are a video card in the top PCI slot and one stick of RAM. I don't have an AT keyboard right now to enter BIOS setup (though I have one on the way). Just curious if there's a "most likely" reason here for this message. I am going to clear the CMOS later, though it did not have a battery when I received it so it should already be cleared. I have checked the jumpers for the CPU settings and they appear to be correct. I have not checked the jumpers for the installed cache yet, so I'll check that later as well. What else should I specifically be checking?
Ok I just did another search since I didn't specifically look for "CMOS display type mismatch" and I guess maybe that's it? Forgive my lack of knowledge here but I didn't get into computers until the late 90s so I missed the 486 era. I've never had to set the display type, I assume that's in the setup? Does the setup retain settings even with no CMOS battery installed? The video card is a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 PCI.
Sucks I can't do anything with BIOS options until my AT keyboard arrives. First world problems I guess.