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I need a motherboard Guru

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jobert

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Trying to fix a three-year old Gateway GP5-200.
I cleared the cmos (nvram) on this board using mb jumpers. Now every time it warm boots, the post gives the message "NVRAM cleared by jumper...", and invites the user to enter BIOS Setup. It only happens on a warm boot... all OK on cold boot. I've tried everything to stop this... reflashing the bios, removing battery, etc. but nothing helps. Spent a WEEK screwing around with Gateway's bloated on-line support, and they finally said "pack it up and ship it back and we'll tell you how much to fix it." I said "no thanks".
Suggestions anyone? (It's in a school computer lab... we really don't want to invite the kidsies to mess with bios setup.)The motherboard is known as the Intel "Mailman"... strange name, strange motherboard.
 
just as a hunch,try and get a new battery for it.Then clear cmos one more time.If it is the battery,it should take the new settings.
 
Seems like it is running on the default settings and is inviting you to verify that they are what you want. Enter the bios, verify that they are correct settings, save&exit. Most boards display this invite on boot-up, minus the nvram cleared. There may be a choice in the bios to bypass this screen that you have reset. Yes, Gateways are weird, not as weird as Compaqs or Dells.

Oh yeh, the Kids have already been in the bios......trust me.
 
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