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| 568690 | 2007-07-13 04:01:00 | Everytime there is a power cut or I turn the power off at the wall, my PC will lose all BIOS settings and I have to reset them again. It is a new Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. Any Ideas? | parky13 (12552) | ||
| 568691 | 2007-07-13 04:02:00 | Welcome to Press F1. Parky:) It looks a bit like a faulty BIOS battery maybe. How old exactly is the motherboard? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 568692 | 2007-07-13 04:04:00 | Did you shut it down from within Windows, before u turned it off at the wall? I did that yesterday actually. Accidentally knocked the other PC's power out of the power socket. While it was on. Didnt like it too much, it came up with an error, when I rebooted. I booted into XP anyway, then noticed the year was 2002 and the time was 5 am lol. This was like 6-7 last night. It reset the BIOS settings too. I had to go back into the BIOS and set it to its defaults then reconfigure the settings. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 568693 | 2007-07-13 04:06:00 | cr2032 cost about $4 regardless of how old the battery is replace it then at least you can eliminate that possibility.....i've seen a battery on a mobo less than three months old expire.... |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 568694 | 2007-07-13 04:09:00 | Hi board is 5 months old. It works fine if you shut down as normal, only when there is a complete power loss. Thats why I didn't suspect the battery. | parky13 (12552) | ||
| 568695 | 2007-07-13 04:26:00 | 'normal' shutdown without turning off the power at the wall leaves 5 volts runnin to the board all the time....... which is why It works fine if you shut down as normal, only when there is a complete power loss is perhaps the best indicator that it is the battery |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 568696 | 2007-07-13 11:18:00 | Day before yesterday, there was a power outage just for a second and my computer had to reboot but everything was still fine when I turned it on. No error messages or anything so it probably is your CMOS. It can't hurt to get it changed and if it still happens, atleast you've eliminated that possibility. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 568697 | 2007-07-14 00:10:00 | Everytime there is a power cut or I turn the power off at the wall, my PC will lose all BIOS settings and I have to reset them again. It is a new Asus A8N-SLI motherboard. Any Ideas? It is possible that the BIOS battery "Clear/Reset" jumper on the Mobo is in the wrong position. Sometimes this is shipped in this position. Just a thought. HH |
Happy Harry (321) | ||
| 568698 | 2007-07-14 02:50:00 | if that was the case the pc would not start at all.....try it yourself... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 568699 | 2007-07-14 02:51:00 | Thanks for your help people. I took the back off to check things. The battery had plenty of power but the connections for the positive phase had pulled away from the battery. As soon as I reconnected them everything has gone back to normal. Cheers. | parky13 (12552) | ||
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