Mac addresses are both invalid in cmos and flash

How to get rid of this?

still need help wit this...

When do you get this message? Is it before the Windows is loading screen?

What exactly is the error message?

its say: Mac addresses are both invalid in cmos and flash

it occurs at the mobo screen....

The MAC address is the hardwired address on your network card. Every network card has a uniques MAC which identifies it physically.

I've read where flashing the BIOS can cause this problem.

The only thing I can say is that if you have a PCI network card, reseat or replace it as it might be bad.

I dnt have that...

If you didn't flash the BIOS and now you're getting the error for no reason at all, I suspect a system board problem.

Hopefully someone else will have a better idea.

i took out the mobo battery... is that flashing the bios?

It's not the same, but it's telling me that you had some other problem that you tried to fix. What prompted you to take out the BIOS battery?

lemme c...

oooo becuz i wasnt gettin any signal on the monitor... but in the end... it was the CPU that needed resettin...

Something is going on here. I hope someone else will chime in with suggestions.

btw: by any chance, can you get on the Internet with that machine? I'm guessing not.

nope...