On Tuesday 10 September 2002 11:34 pm, you wrote: > 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 hey Todd, can you explain why in my dual boot (winME+MDK8.2, currently) dual CPU (1gig P3 each, 512 ram) when ever I attempt to "reboot" from the "normal" manners (ie.;"k"menu, logout, reboot) causes a "floppy drive failure" on the bios startup, but if I reboot by turning off the power supply, or reboot from windows I have no such problem.
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