My daughter has a wonderful computer geek boyfriend who was recently given a bunch of KDS Valiant 6480iPTD laptops that were about to be discarded at a local school. They were manufactured in 2001. It has a Pentium III 800 mhz with 128 mb of RAM and a 20 gb hard drive.
He brought them home, cleaned them up and put Windows XP on them and I bought one of them from him. However, the CMOS won't save changes to the BIOS for some reason. I replaced the CMOS battery but the same thing kept happening. It loses the time and the date goes back to 1/1/1988. I get an error message at POST and must go through the Bios to boot up WIndows. So then I upgraded some of the drivers for XP, which seemed to help but did not solve the problem completely.
Today, I noticed that if I run it plugged in off the electrical cord, it boots right up without a problem and will save the CMOS changes that I make to date and time. It will save all changes as long as I don't try to run it solely off of the ion battery, in which case it loses it's settings.
Any ideas? My first thought is to get a new ion battery pack, but I don't want to spend $100 if that's not going to solve the problem.
Thanks!
This message was edited Mar 12, 2007 10:24 AM
KDS Valiant Laptop Problem
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