On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 16:51 -0500, James He wrote: > Hi, all! > > This might be off-topic, but since we are running FC on this machine, > so maybe you can help. > > I replaced a bad motherboard with a new one for one computer and the > computer started to be working again. The only problem now is that I > am not able to save the BIOS(Phoenix) setting on that computer, that > is to say, the default setting will always come back automatically. > This is not acceptable, for we need to boot the computer from network, > but the default booting sequence prefers to boot from hard disk, on > which we do have a bootable operating system. > > The BIOS reset jumper is in its normal place, and I even changed the > battery on the motherboard to see how it goes -- the problem remained. > You do not state what motherboard you are using. Some motherboards have jumpers to write protect the bios. Others have a similar setting in the bios itself. Check that and see if you can find anything that makes a difference. > Thanks in advance! > > -- > Best regards, > > James He >