bios screen

You need to replace the battery on your computer's motherboard.

But, I know you'd be a lot happier using Sonar 7 with a new, up-to-date computer.

Sorry I should have read the directions for using this site first. After doing a search for laptops I don't think I'll go that route. My computers a little dated but was built by DAWBOX for audio with a 2.4 AMD and 2 hard drives 80 and 100. I think I will just change the battery for now.
Thanks again
Frank

If his battery is currently dead, then it's running on it's defaults already anyway. (Nothing is lost except for custom changes, like boot drive sequence, date and time, etc.; everything has a default that gets set to when the battery dies.)

If you replace the battery for the BIOS, don't you lose the BIOS data ?

Hello,

Yes, but during boot-up you will receive a POST "beep" and the following messages (I paraphrase) - 1. a generic description of the CPU like "2.4 GHZ Processor" and 2. "memory type mismatch." This is followed by the instruction to hit "delete" to enter the set-up. (This is how it has been since 286 machines in the early 80's. Talk about "progress.") Once you are presented with the set-up screen, all you need to do is select "exit and save" because the BIOS will automatically sense, the CPU, memory and hard drives). You will again go through start up only this time you will see the proper CPU, memory and also the hard drive(s) will be listed. If you don't normally make special settings in the BIOS, this is all you have to do. Otherwise you have to make those changes before the "exit and save."

Why they still store the BIOS config settings in a powered chip and not in non-volatile flash memory is a mystery to me. The only reason for the battery is so the clock is set when you boot up. Then only power the clock with the battery and let the BIOS settings be stored in flash memory. Too simple I guess.

GK