On Sat, 6 May 2006, Eric Poulsen wrote:
In response to the instability issues I've had with LB (It's not ram -- memtest86+ ran for hours under LB with no errors), someone here suggested that there are chipset registers that are reset by the factory BIOS that LB isn't (re)setting correctly, and that LB works well right after using the factory BIOS because those registers hold their values for a while.
I'm conviced this is the case -- I have too many weird issues that can be fixed by simply flipping back to the factory BIOS, turning the system on, getting a "bad CMOS" error, then immediately powering off and switching to LB, which suddenly works again.
Check the CMOS battery voltage. If it's low the CMOS will loose a bit or two over time. Ran into that problem years ago on a 286 mb.
Russ