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Anyone any ideas as to why I get the BIOS screen asking me to reset my CPU
speed everytime the PC is powered up after a shutdown. Could it be a battery
thing?

PC works fine apart from this

W2K OS
ASUS A7266E Motherboard

Thanks

Yes, the CMOS battery is dead or dying. Change it.


On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:35:48 +0100, in
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Buffy scrawled:

>Anyone any ideas as to why I get the BIOS screen asking me to reset my CPU
>speed everytime the PC is powered up after a shutdown. Could it be a battery
>thing?
>
>PC works fine apart from this
>
>W2K OS
>ASUS A7266E Motherboard
>
>Thanks
>

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How long to CMOS batteries usually last?
"°Mike°" <> wrote in message
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> Yes, the CMOS battery is dead or dying. Change it.
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:35:48 +0100, in
> <ce3tfa$600$>
> Buffy scrawled:
>
> >Anyone any ideas as to why I get the BIOS screen asking me to reset my
CPU
> >speed everytime the PC is powered up after a shutdown. Could it be a
battery
> >thing?
> >
> >PC works fine apart from this
> >
> >W2K OS
> >ASUS A7266E Motherboard
> >
> >Thanks
> >
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

How long is a piece of string? If you get a bad one, it
may crap out in the first week, on the other hand, I
have a very old 486 with the original CMOS battery
still in, and working ... well, the last time I looked.


On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:04:19 +0100, in
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Buffy scrawled:

>How long to CMOS batteries usually last?

<snip>

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As far as I could see, mike's mum is his dad and vica versa, well I was
stood next to them



"°Mike°" <> wrote in message
news:...
> How long is a piece of string? If you get a bad one, it
> may crap out in the first week, on the other hand, I
> have a very old 486 with the original CMOS battery
> still in, and working ... well, the last time I looked.
>
>
> On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:04:19 +0100, in
> <ce3v4p$6d4$>
> Buffy scrawled:
>
> >How long to CMOS batteries usually last?
>
> <snip>
>
> --
> Basic computer maintenance
> http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

Yeah, Buffy, it sounds like your CMOS battery is dead. Just buy a new one
at your local computer store for a few bucks, replace the old one, and
change your BIOS settings once more. That SHOULD take care of it.

One other thing that it COULD be is if you are shutting your computer down
during the POST (at startup), your motherboard may be resetting the BIOS to
the safe defaults. Some newer motherboards do this because they think that
if the POST didn't complete then there must have been a problem and the
BIOS settings will be reset. I think it is more than likely the battery
however.

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"Buffy" <> wrote in
news:ce3tfa$600$:

> Anyone any ideas as to why I get the BIOS screen asking me to reset my
> CPU speed everytime the PC is powered up after a shutdown. Could it be
> a battery thing?
>
> PC works fine apart from this
>
> W2K OS
> ASUS A7266E Motherboard
>
> Thanks
>
>
>