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CMOS looses time during POST
Name: Souta (by souta95) Date: October 5, 2006 at 13:10:14 Pacific OS: Win95C CPU/Ram: Pentium 166/ 96Mb Product: Packard Bell Multimedia D
Comment:
Hi, I am having an annoying problem with my Packard Bell Multimedia D135 computer (I am not sure what model of motherboard it has in it). Since I upgraded the Procesor ( from a Pentium 133 to a pentium 166) it won't keep its time through POST (though it had been stiitng for quite sonme time before I did that). I can go and set the time when the error message appears, then restart the computer after saving the settings in the BIOS and it happens again. I have replaced the CMOS battery. Is it possible that the new one is faulty (well, it is new to that computer, it was used). I had it running overnight but the problem remains. I have not tried putting the Pentium 133 back in it. Any thaughts?
Name: grasshopper Date: October 5, 2006 at 13:50:25 Pacific
Reply:
If it was a used battery, chances are it's weak. I would buy a new one. That sure is an old machine you are using. I believe it's tired too:))) Good Luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: Souta (by souta95) Date: October 5, 2006 at 13:56:38 Pacific
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Thanks, I'll try that (I have a couple of other used batteries that I can try untill I get some new ones).
If anybody else has any other suggestions, please feel free to respond.
Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: Souta (by souta95) Date: October 5, 2006 at 14:04:54 Pacific
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One thing I forgot: It retains all BIOS settings other than time. Removing the battery causes it to loose everything.
Sorry about that.
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Response Number 4
Name: XpUser Date: October 5, 2006 at 16:12:41 Pacific
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Not true. Removing the battery causes it to loose everything except default BIOS settings.
i_XpUser
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Response Number 5
Name: Souta (by souta95) Date: October 5, 2006 at 17:41:39 Pacific
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It wasn't the default that it keeps (removing the battery resets it to default, but restarting the system doesn't), it keeps what I set it to (except for the time, obviously). What I meat by everything was it would loose all the settings that I put in.
Sorry about being unclear on that.
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Response Number 6
Name: Souta (by souta95) Date: October 6, 2006 at 14:50:06 Pacific
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I changed the processor to a different Pentium 166 that I had, that solved the problem... weird.
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