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Originally Posted by tryshz  Getting to be an unfortunate habit.
Had bad weather while I was not home, and the power went off enough to
shut down the computer. |
Hi,
are you sure that the very beginning of your problems wasn't due to bad weather ie. thunder and lightning? You say that the power went out. IF the computer keeps "forgetting" the date, it will possibly also be forgetting other important stuff like harddisk type, ram type etc. This is just off the cuff but I would check two things before doing anything more radical:
1) get a new CMOS battery and change it.
2) get a flash-image of the newest BIOS and re-install it.
What may have happened is that the "weather" caused a power-surge that corrupted the BIOS and/or damaged the battery. "Forgetting" the date an the checksum errors seem to indicate problems with these components.
But as I said this is off the cuff...
HTH
/Petri