• If the CMOS battery is empty, you will be prompted with the following error when you power on the machine.

To continue from this error screen, do the following:

• Press F2 to enter System Setup.

• If needed, use the cursor keys to move to the menu option titled: Hard Disk Setting and choose the appropriate values.
• My system has the 500 MB hard disk, but I use ANYDRIVE to manually configure the hard drive settings, so I don't need to adjust the Hard Disk values. I only need to press F10 to save settings and reboot.
• Note! If you make the wrong selection on this screen, you can do the following:
  • Turn the machine off, then while booting, press CTRL + SHIFT + F10 when the computer powers on.
  • If this does not work, you may turn the machine off, wait 5 minutes, then turn it back on. If you have an empty CMOS battery, you will be prompted with the same CMOS error message again.
  • You may also manually enter the system configuration, by running the TEST3 utility found at the Files and Resources section.

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