Sephiroth Posted March 2, 2003 well instead of takeing this thing back to best buy and waiting 4 months, I took it apart. The CMOS is on recall, well if u cant flash it. the error is rather nasty too. if u use a password at boot there is a chance it would 'forget' the password, thus makeing boot impossible. clearing a CMOS should be simple, right? well not with a compaq laptop. It took me forever to figure out how to get 'under the hood' without damageing the laptop. well after 4 hours of toying and investigateing the case i found a way in. however i had to take just about every thing out of the laptop to find the tiny CMOS battery. after i cleared the bastard i flashed it. in the end i found it is rather easy to get into this laptop, that is once you know how.] words of advice, if u have a compaq(even if it is not a laptop) check to see if there is any CMOS issues. the compaq site said a number of their computers had this and a few other nasty bugs. had it been a tower it would have not been a big deal. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted March 2, 2003 Hehehmm. You should have gone with Dell. I once phoned tech support because of the LCD being loose at the left side, and they insisted on sending someone to our place to fix it. 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted March 2, 2003 o_O I hope there is no problem with my CMOS, because I have no fucking clue about CMOS batteries, and this is really my only computer. 0 Share this post Link to post
DarkWolf Posted March 2, 2003 I had to flash the bios of my Compaq Presario so it would retain changes made in the BIOS menu. At first I thought it was just the CMOS battery, but changing it didn't help. 0 Share this post Link to post
fraggle Posted March 2, 2003 AndrewB said:Hehehmm. You should have gone with Dell. I once phoned tech support because of the LCD being loose at the left side, and they insisted on sending someone to our place to fix it. Dude, you're getting a technician! 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted March 3, 2003 the_Danarchist said:o_O I hope there is no problem with my CMOS, because I have no fucking clue about CMOS batteries, and this is really my only computer. CMOS - Carbon Metallic Oxide Semiconductor (I think) Purpose: Provides lasting small power supply to maintain BIOS settings in what would be otherwise volatile memory. You are welcome. :P 0 Share this post Link to post
Sharessa Posted March 3, 2003 Ultraviolet said:CMOS - Carbon Metallic Oxide Semiconductor (I think) Purpose: Provides lasting small power supply to maintain BIOS settings in what would be otherwise volatile memory. You are welcome. :P Um...I already knew all that. I just have no clue what to do with it if it stops working (besides getting a new one, and I know from personal experience that sometimes those bitches are soldered into the board). 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted March 3, 2003 Zaldron said:Complementary Metallic blah blah... Whoops. Sleep deprivation. 0 Share this post Link to post
Rotting Corpse Posted March 3, 2003 If you haveing troulbe with CMOS its thime for a new comp. I ahve had CMOS proplems come back and they ware worse then the fist time. 0 Share this post Link to post
AndrewB Posted March 4, 2003 A CMOS error is nothing a new motherboard wouldn't fix. But I had to clear the darn thing several times before it started working without malfunction. 0 Share this post Link to post
Ultraviolet Posted March 4, 2003 AndrewB said:A CMOS error is nothing a new ***CMOS BATTERY*** wouldn't fix. But I had to clear the darn thing several times before it started working without malfunction. Right on! Well, I guess it depends on what the problem is. Most of the time it actually IS just the battery. 0 Share this post Link to post
