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Posted: **Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:21 am**

Hey,
My PC works fine, but it might not be running at its optimal settings. Here are my specs:

AMD XP 2600+
PC Chips M848A Mobo
1 G DDR 2700 RAM
Radeon 9800 Pro 128
Western Digital 160 GB HDD

Everytime I boot up it says CMOS battery low and CMOS battery memory size wrong. So, I select to run the default settings and it works fine. But, If I try to change any settings in the BIOS, it can't save the changes on the battery, and I have to reset the mobo jumpers. I have tried two different mobos and have also changed the battery, but it still does the same thing.

It also says I have a AMD Duron 1250, which I don't. I don't know if that has to do with the BIOS not having the FSB speed set right. ???

Any info will help.
Thanks in advance!

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Posted: **Fri Apr 16, 2004 3:15 am**

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Posted: **Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:20 am**

something you can try is boot from the xp disk and start the recovery console.Use the (<-link) and/or the (<-link) command(s).

Posted: **Fri Apr 16, 2004 5:45 am**

When I boot from the XP CD, it checks my hardware configuration and then states:

Line 2347 of the INF file \i386\txtsetup.sif is invailid
The setup cannot continue...

???

Posted: **Fri Apr 16, 2004 6:30 am**

Theres not alot of info on that other than the links below.I saw where someone claimed to have formatted the drive,installed 98 then xp as a work around.It apparently worked for them..not really something i would want to do.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -US;314088

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... duct=winxp

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