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QuidProspero

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December 24th, 2010 14:00

Missing PW410 P.O.S.T. message

I recently lost the CMOS battery on a Dell PW410 (simply run down, after many years).  I replaced the CR2032, got the entire machine working again, but now the "Press ..." message is no longer displayed during POST.  The Dell logo is displayed, arbitrarily pressing F2 -will- get me into CMOS set-up, and everything else seems to be working normally.  Tried re-flashing Phoenix BIOS A14, to no effect.  What else could block display of that message?

 

  • osprey4

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    Posted December 24th, 2010 17:00

    Hi Quidprospero,

    This is probably a BIOS setting lost when your battery went dead. Look around and you should be able to find it.