I have an old Toshiba Satellite laptop that I’m going to replace the CMOS battery for. Right when I turn the machine on it tells me to press F1 to enter BIOS because of [I]CMO read error or CMOS checksum error[/I]. I am convinced that once I change the battery this particular problem will be gone. After all it has been used for many years.
Furthermore I have some suspicions though about the nature of this problem. the pc would not boot up completely –
At some point while the winxp logo is shown during the startup process, a blue screen appears for about a TENTH of a second, and the computer just simply resets/restarts itself.
My question is, could this problem have anything to do with the fact that the CMOS battery is low?
