Thread: "Press F1 to resume"........argh!

Check the motherboard battery is ok, cause if it goes flat, the motherboard forgets everything, and the "f1 to continue msg. comes up"

Occasionally though, i used to get the f1 msg. come up in my car for no reason (saying the date and time have been lost), so i carried a full keyboard in the boot in case this happend. I pressed f1 to continue, then run a batch file to set the date and time. This didn`t happen very often, however.

Hey, Mike. Yeah, I have a keyboard and hit te F1, too. Not a big deal but I got used to the seamless bootup before this starting happening. There's gotta be a reason for it. The battery should still be good and the settings seem to be holding so I really don't think it's that but I'll pop a new battery in there anyhow. The cold may be somehow killing the battery a bit. Cheers.

yeah the cold used to kill my old motherboard battery too since it was a bit weak. try a new battery......

I had the same problem, during the summer though. The bios would also reenable the onboard sound and create all kinds of headaches.
mike

look at the memeber numbers for the previous 3 posts. 1424 1425 1426 right in a row. the little things that ammuse me.
mike

Hey Mike. Old Bridge, eh? Cool. I'm in the Woodbridge area. Funny thing is that all the BIOS settings stay so I was guessing it couldn't be the battery. I've gotta get around to replacing the battery anyway. I should know better, actually, that the cold definitely does put a hurtin' on batteries. I'll give it a shot.