Change in bios and I cant boot now

[Carl Flippin]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 08:35:14PM -0600, Wade Smart wrote:
> 20081225 2029 GMT-5
> 
> I got my son a graphics card and maxed out his ram at 4gb for Christmas.
> We wiped his hd clean and then went to duel boot xp and ubuntu.
> Everything was great until we booted into the bios and he made a change:
>   VGA Memory > 64mb to 0mb.  He thought since the card had 1gb of ram
> that he could recover that 64mb. Well, when the computer starts, the
> screen lights up with the manufacturer logo and then displays "no signal".
> 
> How can you recover from a bios mistake?
> 

The quickest solution is to pull the cmos battery. That will set
everything back to defaults and let you see again.

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