no cmos battery!

[hlp]

so I open up my old laptop since it wont boost pass the win 8 repair window thing and found out the cmos battery is missing is this a big problem?

 

[voyagerfan99]

You see no battery in the socket, or you don't see a socket anywhere? Did you completely strip the computer down?

CMOS batteries don't really solve boot issues anyway, unlike with desktops.

 

[hlp]

theres a socket but no battery the, I try doing a full system reboot and manual reboot to no avail. Keep giving me a BAD_POOL_HEADER I cant enter safe mode either so I cant get any dump files or anything.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Well that's not because of the missing CMOS battery.

 

[hlp]

ok um any idea what went wrong woke up one morning and it just happen.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Test your RAM and your hard drive. Sounds like bad hardware somewhere.

 

[hlp]

I only got one stick of ram so how do I go about testing it? and when I try to manual install win 7 onto it, it froze right when the flag logo start swirling around.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Download Hiren's Boot CD, put it on a flashdrive or burn it to a CD, and run Memtest86+

http://www.hirensbootcd.org/download/

 

[Geoff]

You can run a computer on a dead or missing CMOS battery, however if you lose power or unplug your computer your BIOS and clock will get reset. As Voyager said, that's not related to your problem.