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CmosDriver
I'm running WinXPPro and I walked up to my computer this morning and I had an
automatic update pop-up window on my desktop out of nowhere. >or at least it
aPPeaReD to be that< I have my computer set to notify me if any new updates
are available. This particular window had a countdown timer within it. I
caught it before it counted down to zero and chose "restart later". I
continued to get ready for work and by the time i returned to my pc it had
just shutdown to restart. Now... Once it restarted, it gets to the "Checking
NVRAM" screen... and it's now STUCK THERE!!! Never had this problem before. I
have 2 XP OS's loaded on my machine and not able to access either one. (on 2
different partitions) - - - - I've taken out the CMOS battery, I've cleared
CMOS using the jumper, I've tried to get to the start up options to choose
"Last good known" BUT, Pressing F8 does absolutely nothing now and even
though i have reset it to boot from my CD drive first, so I can attempt to
boot off of my XP disk for a repair... it still goes thru the normal bootup
until it gets to freezing at NVRAM. I'm on my other desktop (HOPING) that it
won't happen to this one out of nowhere as well!!
Uh... HELP... ANYBODY!!!!! THANX N ADVANCE. Wayne B.
automatic update pop-up window on my desktop out of nowhere. >or at least it
aPPeaReD to be that< I have my computer set to notify me if any new updates
are available. This particular window had a countdown timer within it. I
caught it before it counted down to zero and chose "restart later". I
continued to get ready for work and by the time i returned to my pc it had
just shutdown to restart. Now... Once it restarted, it gets to the "Checking
NVRAM" screen... and it's now STUCK THERE!!! Never had this problem before. I
have 2 XP OS's loaded on my machine and not able to access either one. (on 2
different partitions) - - - - I've taken out the CMOS battery, I've cleared
CMOS using the jumper, I've tried to get to the start up options to choose
"Last good known" BUT, Pressing F8 does absolutely nothing now and even
though i have reset it to boot from my CD drive first, so I can attempt to
boot off of my XP disk for a repair... it still goes thru the normal bootup
until it gets to freezing at NVRAM. I'm on my other desktop (HOPING) that it
won't happen to this one out of nowhere as well!!
Uh... HELP... ANYBODY!!!!! THANX N ADVANCE. Wayne B.