Startup Error

[Aaron]

During the boot up process this message faithfully
appears:

CMOS/GPNV CHECKSUM BAD
PRESS F1 TO RUN SETUP
PRESS F2 TO LOAD DEFAULT VALUES AND CONTINUE

Pressing F2 will get windows to load. The only problem I
see is that the date and time revert to June 26, 2002
(the date the chip was programmed?)at around 12:00.

Why am I getting this error and what is the fix?

Aaron
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[Taurarian]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315241
A Stop: 0xc000026C or Stop: 0xc0000221 "Unable to Load Device Driver" Error
Occurs When You Start Windows XP

"Aaron" > wrote in message
...
> During the boot up process this message faithfully
> appears:
>
> CMOS/GPNV CHECKSUM BAD
> PRESS F1 TO RUN SETUP
> PRESS F2 TO LOAD DEFAULT VALUES AND CONTINUE
>
> Pressing F2 will get windows to load. The only problem I
> see is that the date and time revert to June 26, 2002
> (the date the chip was programmed?)at around 12:00.
>
> Why am I getting this error and what is the fix?
>
> Aaron
> (Please send a reply to
> )

[Black Baptist]

Taurarian rambled on in microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers:

> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q315241
> A Stop: 0xc000026C or Stop: 0xc0000221 "Unable to Load Device Driver" Error
> Occurs When You Start Windows XP
>
>"Aaron" > wrote in message
> ...
>> During the boot up process this message faithfully appears:
>>
>> CMOS/GPNV CHECKSUM BAD
>> PRESS F1 TO RUN SETUP
>> PRESS F2 TO LOAD DEFAULT VALUES AND CONTINUE
>>
>> Pressing F2 will get windows to load. The only problem I
>> see is that the date and time revert to June 26, 2002
>> (the date the chip was programmed?)at around 12:00.
>>
>> Why am I getting this error and what is the fix?
>>
>> Aaron
>> (Please send a reply to )
>
>

Might be a dead cmos battery.