morning all, im off to see my shrink too we try and discover why im an alcoholic....should be interesting. btw any 'nerds' out there can explain some pc shit to me, i know the basics but that about it . im tryin too fix a pc for a mate and ive managed to reformat and reinstall the operating system , had a bit of bother with the bugger not detecting the on board sound, ethernet and cpl of other things , obviously couldnt get on line with it to search for the missssing driver, so i installled service pack2 and plug an ethernet card straight in and away we went. the question is why doesnt windows have the drivers for this? other thing is when i switch it on it goes to bios and states that the ' display switch is set incorrectly'then ''c-mos checksum error-defaults loaded' followed with 'c-mos battery failed' and ive gotta F1 it to proceed...what does this mean?.....cheers in anticipation , im off to get my head shrunk a little.
C-mos battery failed means that the little silver penny shaped battery is not holding it's charge or is dead, and as such the bios options are being reset to default each time the computer powers down. This can be piss annoying when you have a certain required boot order etc. Sounds like you need to go pick up a spare one and pop it in. Alternatively you could tell the bios to halt on no errors and ignore the fucker
Which version of windows did you install, to not detect audio etc, sounds like it might be XP or alternatively a very old computer, vista and 7 always just had everything ready to go come booting in the first time. What i normally do is simply crack the case cover, grab the model number of the motherboard, which is normally printed in big white letters somewhere or other (alternatively install cpu-z and it'll give you information) and then mosey onto the websote of the company that made the board and hit the download section. You'll find your audio chipset graphics driers etc there without a doubt. Windows only contains mainstream drivers for popular brands and that lot, so if it's an older product, it may not contain inbuilt support.
And i'd hedge my bets and say you're an alcoholic because you're scottish. Who the fuck wouldn't turn to alcohol if they got stuck with that bollocks country
Didn't see that up there, what gavstar said basically. Likewise i used to be an utter geek, every draw and cupboard in my loung is filled with spare water pumps and moniters and switches and ram and this and that and everything i really ought to just sell and make money on before it becomes obselete
Havn't found a need to upgrade my computers for over 3 years now, nothing out there which remotely taxes things. Won't stop them churning out CoD after CoD improvements be damned.