Seperate Question about the BIOS settings

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javierislegend

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Hey guys quick question? Just wondering if there was any possible way to keep the internet settings 'Enbaled' in my BIOS settings? because sometimes they suddenly turn off and i have to reboot, run BIOS, and enable them manually everytime they shut off. Can anyone help? :confused:
 
Try a fresh battery on the boiard. The cmos information is maintained by the coin sized lithium type battery including any changes in settings from the factory defaults. If you have onboard Lan and other items enabled those are switched off when a weak battery starts seeing things act up even sudden unexpected system restarts. When the battery goes the system won't start.
 
The cmos is maintained strictly by battery except on some rather old systems where a capacitor held a charge. That's why it's so voilitile. Ever clear the cmos? If you emove battery the system won't start. If you forget to move jumper back to the default position it won't run then either. The entire bios setup is maintained separately from the rest of the board.
 
It's always good to have a spare onhand anyways. Those are commonly found where batteries for digital camera, watches are seen in retail stores, pharmacies like CVS or other chains, etc. for about $3 or so. Usually they last a few years but some like any other type of battery will go quick.

The first sign is usually unexpected restarts or a sluggish bootup showing a battery is weak often enough. You can even assign a wav file in Windows to alert you to a weak battery if no other problems like a worn drive are found.
 
javierislegend said:
Hey guys quick question? Just wondering if there was any possible way to keep the internet settings 'Enbaled' in my BIOS settings? because sometimes they suddenly turn off and i have to reboot, run BIOS, and enable them manually everytime they shut off. Can anyone help? :confused:
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You mean your onboard LAN, when you go into your bios does the onboard LAN really say disabled and you have to enable, because if the battery is dead it just resets your bios to default when you shut down and restart and by default the LAN should be enabled. You sure your not just lossing your internet connection and when you restart your getting it back?
 
PC eye said:
If you emove battery the system won't start.
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Of course it wont, you break the connection when you take the battery out. You can boot a computer fine with a dead battery, you just have to go into the bios and reset everything and save and exit and it will boot fine. But the next time you shut down and reboot it resets the bios again including the time and date. So I dont think just losing his internet connection has anything to do with his battery.
 
StrangleHold said:
Of course it wont, you break the connection when you take the battery out. You can boot a computer fine with a dead battery, you just have to go into the bios and reset everything and save and exit and it will boot fine. But the next time you shut down and reboot it resets the bios again including the time and date. So I dont think just losing his internet connection has anything to do with his battery.
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On some boards a dead battery means no startup at all. That was quite evident with the old Asus A7N8X Deluxe board I ran on a Socket A build where a simple swap of batteries brought the system back to life. After the system refused to boot with the fsb set to 200 following the cpu overheating the XP3200+ ran as an XP2500+ and it was thought the cpu was toast until lately when tossing a new battery in to see the 200mhz setting run a 3200+!

The board loves batteries apparently. :eek: When bringing the fsb factory 100mhz setting up everything now runs at the 200 setting telling me the board is battery dependent there. Never assume that what applies to one board applies to all. Loss of bios programming showing a need for an update would be another idea to look at.
 
PC eye said:
Never assume that what applies to one board applies to all.
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I think thats a statement you should remember. I,ve done it on socket 5- 7- Slot 1- A- 754 and 939s and all of them booted with a dead battery, like I said though you have to go into the bios and reset everything everytime you shut down.
 
StrangleHold said:
I think thats a statement you should remember. I,ve done it on socket 5- 7- Slot 1- A- 754 and 939s and all of them booted with a dead battery, like I said though you have to go into the bios and reset everything everytime you shut down.
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The system here wouldn't even startup one day until running out for a battery. When you pressed the power switch... nothing. no fans spun. no flicker of light seen on the power led. nothing period. Nothing on the board would switch on at all. The system had been running until seeing that leaving you to wonder what went. I gave the idea of seeing if a new battery would work and waa laaa everything fired right up afterwards. keep that in mind!
 
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