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Today I booted up and the booting process usually shows a listing of what was
found-like the hard drive, sound cards, memory -etc and then xp loads.
Today, The listing stopped and the words like CMOS date/time wrong..press F2
to restore defaults. No other key worked so I had to press F2. It continued
to boot but now a "new hardware" wizard started looking for Multimedia
controllers-it searched and could not find. I did have a date and time now
of january 2001 so I corrected that and rebooted. After re-booting, I now
got a new screen that I think superimposes over that listing that shows, I
think my motherboard. It says, PaP800 Motherboard ASUS and then after awhile
windows XP boots. I have sound, Media player 11 workd fine, messenger camera
ok too but in my device manager in hardware the horrible yellow question mark
is by this Multimedia Audi Controller AND when I boot up now I no longer see
the listing of found items (where that message was about CMOS) no longer
shows. Other posting say I need to update my sound board but I am unclear
on doing this. How do you find what type of sound board you have. I had my
PC made for me a few years ago and of course the company is now out of
business. In the messenger wizard the sound is listed as Creative sound
blaster CPI-- . I do not know what to touch in CMOS to get that listing to
show again in case I get another message I will never see it with this new
screen showing the motherboard superimposed. Can anyone help me?
Old Bob
found-like the hard drive, sound cards, memory -etc and then xp loads.
Today, The listing stopped and the words like CMOS date/time wrong..press F2
to restore defaults. No other key worked so I had to press F2. It continued
to boot but now a "new hardware" wizard started looking for Multimedia
controllers-it searched and could not find. I did have a date and time now
of january 2001 so I corrected that and rebooted. After re-booting, I now
got a new screen that I think superimposes over that listing that shows, I
think my motherboard. It says, PaP800 Motherboard ASUS and then after awhile
windows XP boots. I have sound, Media player 11 workd fine, messenger camera
ok too but in my device manager in hardware the horrible yellow question mark
is by this Multimedia Audi Controller AND when I boot up now I no longer see
the listing of found items (where that message was about CMOS) no longer
shows. Other posting say I need to update my sound board but I am unclear
on doing this. How do you find what type of sound board you have. I had my
PC made for me a few years ago and of course the company is now out of
business. In the messenger wizard the sound is listed as Creative sound
blaster CPI-- . I do not know what to touch in CMOS to get that listing to
show again in case I get another message I will never see it with this new
screen showing the motherboard superimposed. Can anyone help me?
Old Bob