kentucky fried cmos beats hardees hey folks is it possible to short out your cmos chip i think mine is fried these are the symptoms i have to do the following to get my computer a gateway dx to boot turn the power off disconnect the battery to the cmos chip turn the power on get into setup upon getting the cmos configuration error set up the cmos exit the setup with f phoenix bios ignore the diskette seek error and press f the computer then boots normally both hard drives are accessible but the floppy drives are not i can back up over the network and such but if i need to reboot i have to turn off the computer and repeat the steps above if i simply ctl alt del the computer hangs after the memory test does this sound like the cmos chip is fried can i buy another one where thank you for your kind attention john john c lusth becton dickinson research center rtp nc usa jcl bdrc bd com
