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Everytime I boot-up my PC. It always tells me that the NVRAM is cleared and it ask me two choices: Press F1 to setup or Press Escape to continue to boot-up. What is the problem and How can I fix this.

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NVRAM is non-volatile RAM and is used to store things about your computer like what drives etc are present.
Its supplied with power, when the pc is off, from a small battery on the M/B looks like a watch battery (small flat metal disk) and needs replaced every few years. You can get replacements anywhere that sells a good selection of batteries. The other cause is a jumper to clear it when the contents got corrupted but I assume no jumpers have been changed recently.
Hope it helps.

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To clear NVRAM is to set it to factory defaults which could be manual settings to an ISP or GATEWAY
Go to the following site
How to Clear NVRAM
http://www.enterasys.com/support/techtips/tk0109-9

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The NVRAM can usually be cleared be placing a jumper over two pins on the motherboard. You only have to jumper these pins for a second. If you left the pins constantly jumpered, you would get the exact error your reporting. Is this what you’ve done ???

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NVRAM (Non violated Ram) E.g.

You Should Enter Setup and try from there to enter a setup prompt cmd,dosprompt

try inserting a start up disk
and when the computer boots off that go to with cdrom support and when you get c:\ come up

type format c:

once thats done

insert a windows 95,98,98SE,me,2k,xp cd and type dir (Directory)

Then type in setup.exe

then follow the command prompt by doing this u will lose all information on your pc but will have a clean start and may fix the problem it may also be a nvram problem try opening the computer to check the power supply and battery
make sure the ram is alright and check for beaps (post beaps ) etc…………

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