From: yadayada@blah.blah   
      
   Buy a new battery . . . install it and configure the bios . . .   
   But as has been pointed out by our good friend "KM" this should have nothing   
   to do with the way XP works . . . looks like another problem.   
      
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   Chuck   
      
   "Lightning Notes"  wrote in message   
   news:5lql63lm3q3epjmhui3m49ss3ei43in0c9@4ax.com...   
   > Hello Everyone.   
   > I sure hope someone can help me.  I purchased an old DELL   
   > Optiplex running XP.  When I first got the machine, I went into bios   
   > and disabled the chasis intrusion detection and saved cmos.  I was up   
   > and running great.  Well it appears the cmos battery went dead and the   
   > bios defaults kicked in and the chasis intrusion was set to detect.   
   > Now, XP will only get to a point and stop.   
   > I remember having this problem a long time ago and having to   
   > use a diskette to reset something.  Once done, XP would boot up fine.   
   > I don't remember what was needed, so now I'm stuck.   
   >   
   > I have an old Dell GX-1   
   >   
   > Since I have been using this machine, I have a lot of stuff on   
   > there I need to get to.  If anyone can give me any help in fixing   
   > this, I'd GREATLY appreciate it!   
   >   
   > I went into the setup, but didn't find any IOAPIC settings.  My   
   > machine is a GX-1.   
   >   
   > Thanks   
   >   
   > Lightning Notes   
      
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