Joseph Stegner wrote on Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:13:23PM -0400 : > For some reason, whenever I reboot from 8.2 (not the betas/RC's, the 8.2 release >version) or 8.2's installer after my mouse initializes and the BIOS tries to >initialize communication with the hard drives, it will hang - the busy led tells me >something is going on, but nothing happens. After waiting for a minute or so, I'll >get either "Bad CMOS checksum, default used" or "Error System Clock" or something of >that nature. Sometimes it'll reset all the changes I made in BIOS. With Win2k and >Mandrake 8.1, nothing of that sort happens.
This has nothing to do with the OS. This is happening before it ever
tries to read the hard drives for the bootstrap information. Your bios
has gotten corrupted. You can either leave it alone or you can try to
flash the bios with a new or current version. I won't say that nothing
bad will happen, but it works just fine for most people who do it. (If
you lose power or have a power glitch while it's flashing, you are
screwed, buy a new mobo).
Blue skies... Todd
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