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motherboard problem?

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by c4iscool, Feb 16, 2007.

  1. c4iscool

    c4iscool Member

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    My pc doesn't start sometimes and when it does I get an error talking about wrong date input. I thought it was the cmos battery, but I changed it and I still get the message. any ideas?
     
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    Did you go into the BIOS and set the clock to the right date? When I clear the CMOS, it sets the date back to Jan. 1, 2000.
     
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    i set the clock, but when I restart the pc it goes back.
     
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    check if the battery holder have no rust or something that prevent it from supplyng voltage to the rtc clock
     
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    there's no rust. any more ideas?
     
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    battery in the right way?
     
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    Did you save your settings when getting out of the BIOS?
     
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    yep. could the cmos chip go bad?
     
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    Funny you should mention that. An hour ago, I was working on my backup computer, and it restarted, and I got an BIOS checksum error, and it starting looking for drives that held the BIOS recovery. The computer went dead, after that.

    I guess the answer is, the BIOS can go bad on you, but I am not sure, in your case.
     

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