On Sunday 25 January 2009 09:11:49 pm Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Monday, 2009-01-26 at 04:03 +0100, Dave Feustel wrote:
It can be the cmos checksum test, and usually means a low cmos battery.
The bad checksum error can occur if the bios image has been patched and the checksum has not been recomputed and replaced.
Oh, yeah, and you thing kde did that? Get real.
:-D It is bad CMOS checksum. Replace battery, follow procedure described in manual to reset CMOS and load defaults. BIOS will refuse to start computer on a bad BIOS checksum. http://www.google.com/search?&q=bad+bios+checksum With dated and very cheap motherboards it means look for MB replacement, while newer offer option to flash BIOS with recovery CD. It seems as old computer that really can run better without KDE, or any other current desktop environment. -- Regards, Rajko -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org