BSOD on new drive/old laptop

Link to old thread for same laptop but different hard drive. I don't know it if the problems are related.

I swear this laptop must be cursed or something. :-D It's been about a month with this new drive and I got home from work and booted up the PC. I was greeted with the all too familiar:

Error 0271 check date and time settings.

Warning 0251 system cmos checksum bad default configuration used.

F1 to continue, F2 to enter set up.

I entered set up and the date was set to 8/20/2009 00:00:45. I corrected the date and time and hit save and exit. Upon that I was hit with a BSOD, but I caught the stop code this time; STOP: 0x000000C5.

I read that it has to do with a device driver for new hardware/software. Well the new drive is a month old and I installed a program, that I won from here, about a week ago, so why the STOP code now or could it be related to something else?

Windows informed me that it had some updates to install so I let it and when it was done it rebooted the laptop. I did not get either the error or the BSOD like last time but now I don't know. Is this something I should be worried about? is there a way I can check to see if a device driver is "bad"? This laptop is getting to be the bain of my existence. rolleyes

 

Not recently, no but I did with my last batch of problems (a month ago).

 

Basically, in my previous post, it came down to the drive died due to a (known by Seagate) flaw with the drive itself.

I will try pulling and resetting the batteries as you suggested. To reset or update the CMOS, is that something I do in BIOS or something I download from the manufacturer's (in this case Dell's) website?

 

You're probably right. I just brought it up because I wasn't sure if it would be relevant considering I got the same message when troubleshooting my last problem. You guys know so much more than I do!

So since this error code is a CMOS error, it doesn't have anything to do with drivers? I read that somewhere, though honestly, I didn't really understand it. Sorry, I'm feeling a little daft here. :-D


Thanks for your help, I will try your suggestions.

 

Oh! ok. I will definitely do this but in my previous post, I was talking about the BSOD error, I read that error 5C was related to either a hardware or software "bad" driver. I wasn't sure what that really meant.

 

Ok, that took forever their website is sooo slow! I checked and there is only one recommended file to download, for my specific service tag, which was related to my wireless card. However, they had 35 files for my specific model, which included one for BIOS but since it wasn't picked up by my service tag, does that mean I already have it?