I received an email from a costumer stating that he was getting an error on on his Big Buck World that gave a low battery error. He was able to replace the battery (CR2023) but now the game would not boot up. The owner now had a diskette 0 error upon powering the machine.
I arrived to take a look, thinking it would be fairly easy to set up the BIOS. I found the following information in the manual.
I found discrepancy, however, as this BIOS settings did not match what was in the manual.
Here are the steps I used to get the game working again.
Step 1: Press F2 to enter setup
Step 2: Set “Date/Time”
Step 3: Boot Sequence–place “CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive” first and then “Hard Drive” second. I deselected “Diskette Drive”, but probably did not have to.
Step 4: Diskette drive to “Off”
Step 5: AC recovery to “On”
Step 6: Keyboard errors to “Do Not Report”
The first time I set the BIOS settings, I did not do Step 5 from the list above. The game played fine, but had problems after the game shut down. The monitor just flashed a disconnect message and the computer never turned on.
I had to take out the battery, wait a minute, and put it back in. I restarted the process and added step 5. Once this change was made, the game booted up and still worked after resetting the game. The owner was back to hunting white-tail deer.
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You literally saved this game for me. Thank you for taking the time to post this.
Glad to hear that it helped you. Thanks for the feedback!
Thanks for posting this. I must have read 10-15 other ‘fixes’ but this was exactly what I needed. It fixed my Big Buck Hunter Pro after I had to replace the BIOS battery in my Dell 740 Optiplex. Much appreciated.
Good to hear! Thanks for letting me know that the post helped.