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Rainy wrote:
Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy How old is the motherboard. If a couple of years old the CMOS battery might be approaching discharge. |
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I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes the problem.
-- Don Vancouver, USA "Rainy" wrote in message ... Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy |
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| When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? _____ Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is almost certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil to lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery on the motherboard. It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let the default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in the behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? thanks Raikny | "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message | ... | I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes | the problem. | | | -- | Don | Vancouver, USA | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... | Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy | | |
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Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy
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thanks.. is this expensive? Rainy
"RobertVA" wrote in message ... Rainy wrote: Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy How old is the motherboard. If a couple of years old the CMOS battery might be approaching discharge. |
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When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my
motherboard? thanks Raikny "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message ... I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes the problem. -- Don Vancouver, USA "Rainy" wrote in message ... Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy |
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thanks so much.. appreciate this..Rainy
"Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... 'Rainy' wrote: | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? _____ Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is almost certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil to lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery on the motherboard. It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let the default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in the behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? thanks Raikny | "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message | ... | I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes | the problem. | | | -- | Don | Vancouver, USA | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... | Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy | | |
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Approximately $5.00 assuming you replace it yourself.
"Rainy" wrote in message ... thanks.. is this expensive? Rainy "RobertVA" wrote in message ... Rainy wrote: Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy How old is the motherboard. If a couple of years old the CMOS battery might be approaching discharge. |
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RobertVA wrote:
Rainy wrote: Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy How old is the motherboard. If a couple of years old the CMOS battery might be approaching discharge. If the computer is losing time when turned off, almost certainly the problem *is* the battery, which needs to be replaced. The age of the motherboard is irrelevant. Although they *usually* last a few years, batteries can go bad at any time -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup |
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Rainy
It is the battery. Change it . -- Peter Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged. "Rainy" wrote in message ... Hi.. I was just asking my friend who installs the hard ware on my computer and she said, she replaced the battery about a year or more ago.. I didn't remember! She suggested I get an atomic clock sync program.. and I did.. So if it's not the battery, any ideas? thanks so much.. Raikny "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... 'Rainy' wrote: | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? _____ Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is almost certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil to lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery on the motherboard. It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let the default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in the behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? thanks Raikny | "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message | ... | I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes | the problem. | | | -- | Don | Vancouver, USA | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... | Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy | | |
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:58:22 -0700, Rainy wrote:
Hi.. I was just asking my friend who installs the hard ware on my computer and she said, she replaced the battery about a year or more ago.. I didn't remember! She suggested I get an atomic clock sync program.. and I did.. So if it's not the battery, any ideas? thanks so much.. Rainy, it is the battery. The clue is "loses time" after the computer has been powered down. The job of that battery is to retain BIOS settings and to advance the internal clock when the computer is not in use. The internal clock is predictably wrong every time you power up which indicates a weak battery. While these batteries typically last five years or more, it's entirely possible that a newly purchased battery is already suffering from long shelf life (lower charge) and will not last as expected. The flip side of the time problem is when the time is correct at start up and then goes wrong. After the computer boots, the operating system takes over and tracks time. If you were losing time only when the computer was in use then you would need an atomic clock to re-synch your time OR find the program that is hogging resources to the point that the operating system could not advance the clock properly. -- Sharon F MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User |
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Hi.. I was just asking my friend who installs the hard ware on my computer
and she said, she replaced the battery about a year or more ago.. I didn't remember! She suggested I get an atomic clock sync program.. and I did.. So if it's not the battery, any ideas? thanks so much.. Raikny "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... 'Rainy' wrote: | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? _____ Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is almost certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil to lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery on the motherboard. It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let the default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in the behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? thanks Raikny | "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message | ... | I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes | the problem. | | | -- | Don | Vancouver, USA | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... | Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy | | |
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'Rainy wrote:
| Hi.. I was just asking my friend who installs the hard ware on my computer | and she said, she replaced the battery about a year or more ago.. I didn't | remember! She suggested I get an atomic clock sync program.. and I did.. So | if it's not the battery, any ideas? thanks so much.. _____ By all means install the 'atomic clock sync program'. It will not solve the problem, but it can't hurt. The change the battery to solve the problem. The battery is what keeps the internal clock running when the power is off. The symptom you report is that the clock loses time when the computer is off. The CMOS battery is what keeps the clock running when the computer is off, but that is not ALL the CMOS battery does. Therefore, replace the battery. An 'atomic clock synch program' just uses an Internet connection to reset the time periodically when the computer is ON and connected to the Internet. This will have no effect with your reported problem Your computer will still lose the time whever it is shut off. Though it is possible that some strange alignment of Jupiter and Mars COULD cause the symptom you report (tiny cracks in the motherboard that have no other effect and that only open up when you press the start button,for example), this is very highly unlikely, and using an atomic clock synch program would STILL be of no help. Change the battery. You have gotten responses from people who know and who have likely accumulated the necessary experience of replacing dozens of CMOS batteries over the last 25 years. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | "Phil Weldon" wrote in message | ink.net... | 'Rainy' wrote: || When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my || motherboard? | _____ | | Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a | replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is almost | certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US | quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the | holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the | power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil to | lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery | on the motherboard. | | It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because | they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let the | default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in the | behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. | | Phil Weldon | | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... || When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my || motherboard? thanks Raikny || "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message || ... || I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes || the problem. || || || -- || Don || Vancouver, USA || "Rainy" wrote in message || ... || Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy || || | | | |
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:58:22 -0700, "Rainy"
wrote: Hi.. I was just asking my friend who installs the hard ware on my computer and she said, she replaced the battery about a year or more ago.. I didn't remember! She suggested I get an atomic clock sync program.. and I did.. So if it's not the battery, any ideas? thanks so much.. Raikny If it's losing time when turned off, it almost certainly *is* the battery. It doesn't matter when the battery was last replaced; although on the average, batteries last for several years, some die much sooner. Synching programs are good to have, but they won't fix the problem, they will hide it. You need to replace the battery. "Phil Weldon" wrote in message ink.net... 'Rainy' wrote: | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? _____ Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is almost certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil to lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery on the motherboard. It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let the default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in the behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my | motherboard? thanks Raikny | "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message | ... | I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes | the problem. | | | -- | Don | Vancouver, USA | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... | Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy | | -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup |
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| thanks Phil.. Rainy _____ Please post the result after you have install the 'atomic clock sync' program and then after you have replaced the CMOS battery. That will help other people with the same symptom, and go a long way toward helping those who have replied to your question that their time in giving complete and precise answers has not been wasted. Phil Weldon "Rainy" wrote in message ... | thanks Phil.. Rainy | "Phil Weldon" wrote in message | ink.net... | 'Rainy wrote: | || Hi.. I was just asking my friend who installs the hard ware on my computer || and she said, she replaced the battery about a year or more ago.. I didn't || remember! She suggested I get an atomic clock sync program.. and I did.. | So || if it's not the battery, any ideas? thanks so much.. | _____ | | By all means install the 'atomic clock sync program'. It will not solve the | problem, but it can't hurt. The change the battery to solve the problem. | | The battery is what keeps the internal clock running when the power is off. | The symptom you report is that the clock loses time when the computer is | off. The CMOS battery is what keeps the clock running when the computer is | off, but that is not ALL the CMOS battery does. Therefore, replace the | battery. | | An 'atomic clock synch program' just uses an Internet connection to reset | the time periodically when the computer is ON and connected to the Internet. | This will have no effect with your reported problem Your computer will | still lose the time whever it is shut off. | | Though it is possible that some strange alignment of Jupiter and Mars COULD | cause the symptom you report (tiny cracks in the motherboard that have no | other effect and that only open up when you press the start button,for | example), this is very highly unlikely, and using an atomic clock synch | program would STILL be of no help. | | Change the battery. You have gotten responses from people who know and who | have likely accumulated the necessary experience of replacing dozens of CMOS | batteries over the last 25 years. | | Phil Weldon | | "Rainy" wrote in message | ... || "Phil Weldon" wrote in message || ink.net... || 'Rainy' wrote: ||| When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my ||| motherboard? || _____ || || Remove the old battery. Take it with you to RadioShack and buy a || replacement. If you have a desktop computer, the required battery is | almost || certainly a CR2032 Lithium 3 volt cell. It looks like a shiny smooth US || quarter and will cost about US $4. The battery should just pop out of the || holder which retains the battry flat on the motherboard. Make sure the || power is off; open the case, pop out the battery, perhaps using a pencil | to || lift the edge. There will be nothing else remotely similar to the battery || on the motherboard. || || It would probably be a good idea to write down the BIOS settings because || they will be erased when the battery is removed. Or you could just let | the || default settings be automatically used with very likely no difference in | the || behavior of the system if you have not specifically changed any settings. || || Phil Weldon || || "Rainy" wrote in message || ... ||| When I go to buy one, do I just buy any cmos battery.. or specific to my ||| motherboard? thanks Raikny ||| "Don Schmidt" Don red_1987 wrote in message ||| ... ||| I'd guess the battery is in its dieing stages. See if replacing it fixes ||| the problem. ||| ||| ||| -- ||| Don ||| Vancouver, USA ||| "Rainy" wrote in message ||| ... ||| Only when computer is turned off.. appreciate any advice.. Thanks Rainy ||| ||| || || || | | | |
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