dead battery

[Rana Biswas <linux_n_me@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
My computer is just a year old. If the battery is dead
does it mean that there is any problem with the
motherboard.
Regards,
Rana

--- Yash Dayal <yash_dayal@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> It seems that your CMOS battery has been exhausted.
> Change your battery.
> The Bios needs the battery to maintain the settings
> and since ur battery is 
> exhausted all the settings get flushed after you
> shut the system.
> Yash
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 21 August 2001 12:03 am, you wrote:
> > Dear Sir,
> > I have i810 motherboard,with AMIBIOS. When I boot
> > after long time, I get following error:
> > CMOS Settings Wrong.
> > Press F1 to Run Setting.
> > Press F2 to load default values and continue.
> >
> > If I press F1 and I can see that date has been
> > changed.
> > If I exit from BIOS setting without changing any
> > setting for CPU, then while booting it gives
> following
> > error message:
> > Wrong CPU speed selected.
> > Now there is no provision to change the CPU speed.
> > Only thing here I can change is overclocking. What
> I
> > do is press page down once and then page up to
> revert
> > back to old setting.
> > Now when I exit from BIOS setting and reboot, the
> > computer boots properly.
> > After booting once successfully, if I reeboot, I
> get
> > no problem and the booting process is through.
> >
> > If I press F2 after error message above, and load
> > Linux (PCQ Linux 7.1), it gives error in loading
> USB
> > module and Sound module.
> >
> > Please help, to get rid of the problem.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Rana Biswas
> >
> >
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