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CMOS – Why? What? How?
There are a slew of cautions out there, because if you mess up your CMOS settings, you’re in big trouble. CMOS is what your computer reads at power-up. We don’t normally go there.
Roedy Green of Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com/downloads has a set of excellent utilities, shareware. Download them, read the manual, register and run the programs.
You will need to have an emergency repair diskette. In Win98SE (similarly in other flavours of Windows) choose Start, Settings, Control Panel, then the “Add/Remove Programs” icon. Choose the “Startup Disk” tab and follow the instructions from Windows.
Reboot in pure DOS mode (no Windows) and follow Roedy’s instructions to run CMOSSave. I usually choose an 8-digit date as my file name, so today I used the command like this:
CMOSSAVE A:20020715.sav
Make sure you copy both CMOSSave.com and CMOSRest.com to your floppy diskette in drive A:.
Then test your emergency diskette by restarting your computer with the floppy diskette in the A: drive; your computer should boot to the DOS prompt, and you should then be able to run Windows by typing WIN and pressing the enter key. Remove the floppy diskette once Windows has started to load.
Store the floppy diskette with your Windows CD in a safe place well away from your computer. In another room is good.
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Toronto and Mississauga, Tuesday, August 30, 2011 9:47 PM
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