Holy hell someone help me please!

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How do you know if your cmos battery is dying? That is the only thing I can think of. I keep getting a message cmos defaults loaded...I keep having to reenter my cpu speed. That's just one problem. The steenkin thing just keeps dying on me for no reason. It took about 50 trys to get it going this time. I am pretty good at troubleshooting and it doesn't seem to be any of the components.

Hellllp...I may not have long here....
 
usually that means its doing some automatic protection. Sometimes you change something or it restarts wrong etc it will do that incase something is wrong with the computer. It locks down the cpu so it doesnt burn, incase the problem was that it was overheating, etc. What happens before these problems occur?

Danny
 
jake-owa said:
How do you know if your cmos battery is dying?
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Replace the battery. If your problems go away, it was the battery's fault. I'm not kidding. Replacing the battery is cheap and easy, as computer repairs go.
 
you may also want to check out the cmos jumpers. There is a 3 pin slot next to the cmos batter. Usually, in order to reset the cmos manually, you take the jumper out of pins 1/2 and place it in 2/3, wait a few seconds, then put it back on 1/2. (Computer off and unplugged, of course) The jumper may be loose or something.

Worth a shot...

kt
 
Don is right. Just replace the CMOS battery. At most they cost about $2. Most systems use a model CR2032, but just remove yours and then buy an exact match.

Also, when you remove your current one check that it was tightly held. If the battery is loose that has the same effect as it being dead.
 
Quick way of testing it...

If you turn off your computer and leave the power plugged in, when you turn it back on it should work fine...

When you turn off your computer and uplug the power chord, when you turn it back on it should come up with a CMOS error.

Porter
 
I think jake-owa's computer may have bought the farm*. He's been too quiet.

* Idiom: "bought the farm" = "died"
 
It is ok now...thanks guys.

It turned out to be nothing more than bad grounding. I simply put a few extra screws into the motherboard to mount it better to the case and it works fine now.

Whodathunkit?
 
Do you have DIP switches on your motherboard? Maybe you have to set CPU's clock multiplier that way, and not through BIOS. Read your motherboard manual. Should say something about DIP switches if you do have one..
 
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