ED#98 : What Happens When The CMOS Battery Fails? - Page 2

Unixlord · 2nd Jul 2008, 08:09 PM

I have an athlon xp system with that problem. But as long as it's connected to the power it won't lose settings. Leaving it off for long periods of time butchered the battery.

iModAMD · 2nd Jul 2008, 10:04 PM

My first computer (an AMD N80L286-12/S) had an soldered battery onboard

bvS · 18th Jul 2008, 08:43 PM

one thing i realized when the battery's dead is that the system won't boot. on my ASUS P5LD2 SE, there's the usual 1 beep, but that's it. the monitor receives no response at all.

Chai · 18th Jul 2008, 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bvS

one thing i realized when the battery's dead is that the system won't boot. on my ASUS P5LD2 SE, there's the usual 1 beep, but that's it. the monitor receives no response at all.

Usually it should still work.

Adrian Wong · 21st Jul 2008, 03:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chai

Usually it should still work.

Yeah, it should at least boot up to the main BIOS screen before informing you the BIOS settings are incorrect and you need to change them.

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18th Jul 2008, 08:43 PM	#13 (permalink)
bvS Newbie Join Date: 14 Jul 2008 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Rep Power: 0	one thing i realized when the battery's dead is that the system won't boot. on my ASUS P5LD2 SE, there's the usual 1 beep, but that's it. the monitor receives no response at all.