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To: Hope Praytochange who wrote (44446)	12/22/2004 11:43:35 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

BIOS defaults or Drive geometry In the case of an older motherboard the default setting for the bootable HDD can be set by User or Auto. If the CMOS lost power it will revert to the Factory Setting. You have to access the CMOS to check the current setting for your main drive. Most large drives required translation in 1998. A User setting in the CMOS would translate the CHS actuals to new settings that gave the right size for the drive. The CHS information is usually printed right on the drive and will offer three or four translations that work with the BIOS. If your machine was booting fine before you lost power then it is likely that you have lost the User setting for the main drive, it has reverted to Auto and the Auto parameters do not match the original formatted setup. The location of the MBR (master boot record) on the disk is determined by the geometry selected at the time of the original format. Asus makes very good motherboards and you may be surprised to see that they do answer. You should be able to find the manual online. If there is no critical data on the machine,you could select any of the CHS settings from the drive itself then repartition, reformat the drive. If the PC won't turn on at all, you may have damaged the board when you replaced the battery, NOT booting covers a fairly wide range of conditions.