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First post, by garrisontrantow

Posted on 2021-01-13, 05:46

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Hello,
i have old pc with WinChip 225MHz and i have problems with CMOS Checksum erorr. I have new battery in here. When i set something after rebooting all of settings are gone but clock no. How can this be done?

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Reply 1 of 1, by Horun

Posted on 2021-01-16, 02:00

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garrisontrantow wrote on 2021-01-13, 05:46:

Hello,
i have old pc with WinChip 225MHz and i have problems with CMOS Checksum erorr. I have new battery in here. When i set something after rebooting all of settings are gone but clock no. How can this be done?

Can you take a good picture of the motherboard ?

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

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