urgent help

[legolas]

My friend has a p3 1ghz config. He is facing some weird problems offlate. Before windows loads up, he is getting the following messages on the dos screen. "checksum error" " Warning!your CPU speed has been changed.Set the speed,save and exit." He continues booting the system hitting F1 nevertheless and nothing seems to add up. Any suggestions are welcomed.

/legolos

[krish]

Motherboard battery is dead. Put a new battery and then configure the settings in the BIOS. The error won't come again.

[choudang]

i heard the same problem....... its the time to change the Battery.

there is a another prob i have seen ... battery is ok.. but still the customer have to play F1 to continue.. i'm sure that EPROM is gone.. how do i repair that .. any sugg

[krish]

As he said that he has got a PIII 1 GHz so it must be quite old now. And so the more chances are that the battery is dead. And anyway that's the cheaper solution to diagnose and try.