Re: [Hampshire] [OT] ? CPU problem?

That looks like a bios message. It's quite possible that it's the bios battery
going flat. Does it give the message after a reset, or only when booting from
cold.

If it only does it on a cold boot then you probably need to replace the bios
battery.

Hope this helps,

Tim B.

On Sunday 20 April 2008 21:28, Lisi wrote:
> The last three times I have booted I have had the following error message:
> <quote>
> CPU is unworkable or has been changed
>
> Press F1 to continue.
> </quote>
>
> I have stopped closing down over-night in case the next boot should
> actually fail. (I had the problem, rebooted without pressing F1 to see if
> it happened again and Lenny loaded without a problem. And I shutdown
> overnight again because I forgot not to do so.
>
> But I have since left it running. Which it seems to do quite happily.
>
> Nothing has changed. And the CPU is obviously not totally unworkable.
>
> I Googled and most of what I found simply did not apply, but I found one
> which did apply and said:
>
> <quote> it maybe that the small battery on your motherboard is coming to
> the end of its life, and its forgotton some of the settings. You can easily
> replace this.</quote>
>
> So - is this good advice?
>
> TIA
> Lisi