good day ...
i received numerous suggestions, ranging from you fool, why didn't you have
ups's to your motherboard is toast. the answer was the CMOS battery was dead.
i replaced the battery and all is well in compaq land again. thanks to all you
took the time to help:
Mary Freesmeyer
Sean O'Connell
Jon Eidson
Grant Schoep
Peter Stern
Michele Tomkin
Richard Loken
Julie Tien
Shreekanth Kulkarni
Jonas Furrer
-- michael
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, Michael Galloway wrote:
> good day all ...
>
> we had a couple of power outtages over the weekend. now my 600au wants to boot
> to the NT/alphabios console (it booted to the SRM console prior to the storms
> with no problem). so i go into the CMOS configuration and set the date and the
> console to SRM, exit, power the system off and on and the settings revert to
> the NT console. what am i missing here? thanks!
>
> -- michael
>
Received on Wed Aug 02 2000 - 13:37:35 NZST