{"id":6310,"date":"2021-11-18T14:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=6310"},"modified":"2021-11-18T14:02:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:02:18","slug":"cmos-checksum-hd-not-recognized","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/cmos-checksum-hd-not-recognized\/67365.html","title":{"rendered":"CMOS Checksum, HD Not Recognized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My brother needed to format his computer and had to access his BIOS to change the boot priority but he had a password he didn&#8217;t remember. He removed his BIOS battery for an hour and replaced it but now he&#8217;s getting a CMOS Checksum error and his hard drive is not being detected.<\/p>\n<p>His optical drives are EIDE and are being detected but the SATA hard drive is not. He tried moving the SATA cable to different ports on the motherboard and tried using multiple MOLEX power connectors.<\/p>\n<p>He also tried using a new battery and loading the default BIOS settings but nothing&#8217;s working. Any thoughts?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: gray; font-size: small;\">Windows XP Pro SP2<br \/>\nAMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHZ Venice Core<br \/>\nGigabyte GA-K8N-SLI Motherboard<br \/>\n1GB Geil DDR400 Dual Channel<br \/>\nATI Radeon X800 GTO Fireblade Edition 256MB DDR PCIE<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":5},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-6310","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/6310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=6310"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=6310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}