At Startup

Hi again, my pc goes through the usual things at startup but slows down badly and goes through all these numbers called checking NVRAM. It never did this before. Can this be removed?
tks

Win 98
P-4 1.6 gig
256 ram

 

Have you tried clearing the CMOS?

 

Daisy, how would I clear the cmos?

 

Here ya go

(Cause I'm a lazy typist. )

 

Thanks for the info Daisy

 

You're welcome. Did you understand it?

 

I'm working on it. Will take some time.

Thanks

 

Clearing cmos will stop the memory check at startup? I'm not really qualified to reset everything after clearing. So I guess I'll just continue to push the escape key at startup to bypass the memory check.

thanks anyways

 

If this is happening after POST then it could be HIMEM doing it. Check your config.sys file in the root of C:, here is what mine looks like:
DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF /NUMHANDLES=128 /Q
If you don't have HIMEM loading then .... never mind.

Best
EDIT: never mind ... i reread your post, missed NV last time.

 

thanks anyways jubalsams

 

Well, if you don't want to reset the cmos, you could at least change something. Maybe do an autodetect on a hard drive. They usually have something like "highlight the drive and press Enter to autodetect ". Even this might fix the bios confusion.

Best

 

Any luck Bimmer Guy ?

 

No such luck Daisy. It's beyond my pc abilities.
thanks