has the battery on my motherboard failed

matty2767

pc has been working fine. i built it around 6yrs ago. today i turned it on and it wouldnt boot. it couldnt find the floppy drive. well i dont have one and when i went into the bios all of the settings were back to default. i changed them and booted into windows no problem. this afternoon i booted the pc and again it wouldnt load and the bios settings are back to default.

i am assuming the battery on the motherboard has reached the end of its life.

does anyone have any other ideas? and where i could buy the battery from. is it ok to use a normal watch battery.

thanks

matthew

espresso

The battery is the likely cause of your problem. Normally a CR2032, about the size of a £1 coin, easily available on the high street for at most £2.

More info here.

opportunity_cost

I buy my CMOS/watch batteries from The Small Battery Company. I buy everything online :rotfl:
CR2032 battery for £1.75 delivered

Art_2

matty2767 wrote: »

pc has been working fine. i built it around 6yrs ago. today i turned it on and it wouldnt boot. it couldnt find the floppy drive. well i dont have one and when i went into the bios all of the settings were back to default. i changed them and booted into windows no problem. this afternoon i booted the pc and again it wouldnt load and the bios settings are back to default.

i am assuming the battery on the motherboard has reached the end of its life.

does anyone have any other ideas? and where i could buy the battery from. is it ok to use a normal watch battery.

thanks

matthew

Sounds like your CMOS battery needs replacing. They're easy to do. I bought a whole card of 30 different size batteries from my local Saturday market and they work fine.

Regards,
Art.

matty2767

went to our local shop and they tried to charge me £4. so have ordered from the small battery company.

cheers