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by shantie

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unable to move around in cmos using arrows, nothing in cmos is highlighted except for hard drive, cd writer, cd rom, can not even change time/date as not highlighted, it is not the keyboard as can exit and save changes, this computer is a AMD AthlonXP1700, belongs to a 13year old girl who got into cmos and has done something, sytem will not boot into winxp and think it is because nothing is recognised in cmos except for drives. any ideas Thanks

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by koetsier

Open the conputercase and look for the clear cmos jumper. place the jumper and switch on the pc, then switch off the pc, remove the jumper and try too boot the pc. cmos is now cleared and reset to default.

by shantie

thanks for suggestion, yes I thought I would have to do that, but could not understand why if cmos settings were wrong that all drives were still highlighted, anyway done the trick and all is well, but still would not boot up xp, so had to format and reinstall, everything working fine now, thanks again

by shantie

thanks for help, the first suggestion done the trick but I have saved the sites you mentioned for future reference, thanks again

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