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CMOS won't save

Postby Niteghost » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:34 am

I was editing some settings, in the BIOS, now, it won't save ,and Reboot.
Luckily, I have a RESET button in front of the PC case, and I can hear the beep and able to reboot back to Windows 7

is my BIOS gone?
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Re: CMOS won't save

Postby edwin » Wed Jul 28, 2010 8:57 am

What make/model is your system and did you replace the 3V lithium coin cell CR2032 CMOS battery with a new one?
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Re: CMOS won't save

Postby Niteghost » Wed Jul 28, 2010 9:21 am

edwin wrote:What make/model is your system and did you replace the 3V lithium coin cell CR2032 CMOS battery with a new one?



No, I did NOT change the Battery


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Re: CMOS won't save

Postby edwin » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:35 pm

It's located at the front edge of the board near the middle, left of the yellow harddisk connectors. The type number is CR2032 should be readily available in any computer shop.

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It's a likely cause of your problem and a cheap fix. the other possible problem could be bad capacitors, more info on that is available on this website:
http://www.badcaps.net
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Re: CMOS won't save

Postby Niteghost » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:59 am

Don't U think by just popping out the Battery and popping it in again, that will CLEAR the CMOS, and I can start fresh again with the Default settings of the BIOS?
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Re: CMOS won't save

Postby edwin » Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:16 pm

possible but it also means you still cannot save any new settings. you want to replace the cmos battery with a new one. they are around $1.
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