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From: DLV@CUNYVMS1.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: How to reset CMOS configuration that prevents booting?
Message-ID: <9005271315.AA06648@jade.berkeley.edu>
Date: 27 May 90 03:10:00 GMT
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My '386 is up and running! Many thanks to Jeff French, Sean, and Tim Beatty!

The solution was indeed to hold down the INSERT key while resetting. It reset
the values in the C&T config to the defaults, allowing the system to boot. I
was so happy to see the BIOS logo!

As Jeff pointed out, C&T memory is separate from the configuration CMOS, so if
I had cleared that by disconnecting the battery, it would not have helped at
all---good thing I did not.

Thanks very much yet again (and gee, what a winderful thing this usenet is!)

Dimitri Vulis
Department of Mathematics
City University of New York Graduate Center

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