In a message on Sunday 07-22-16 Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:

GA Ed,

 HG> Normally a machine starts with a message about how to access to the
 HG> BIOS It should do it even though the BIOS battery is dead.

EV> Yes, Mine does that.
EV> It says the BIOS Battery is dead and offers two F Key choices.
EV> 1. Go to the BIOS
EV> 2. Continue with starting the computer

So far so good.

EV> Also because of the dead BIOS battery I've learned any changes I
EV> make to the BIOS is lost after I've selected YES and presed the
EV> Enter Key.

Quite odd. I have a ThinkPad with a dead BIOS battery and it works OK
after having asked for the Date/Time. Saving any changes to the BIOS
stay put, even at new start. XPpro on that machine.

EV> I tried to open the Acer 370P to see if I can replace the BIOS
EV> battery but I couldn't figure out how to get the case open.

In most cases the screws holding a laptop together, are hidden under
small round rubber plugs, or in other cases under the rubber feet below.

EV> The default setting for CD-ROM BOOTABLE in the BIOS is [Disabled] .

If you can boot an Ubuntu CD, it's not disabled.

EV> I sure wouldn't want the internal HDD to be changed over to W95,
EV> even though I've made a recent BackUp I could use to restore the OS.

I thought that we have all the time, talked about a W95 laptop!

EV> I don't know enough about Ubuntu to run the CD in a Ubuntu VM to
EV> risk it.


73 de Sam, OH0NC

aka Holger

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