It could be dying, not very common though with it being so new.
Hey maybe future CMOS batteries will be like this in the future.6 months maximum hahahahahaha!I guess they started saving on CMOS batteries now too lol.
Nah I am just kidding lol.
caboose73 the CMOS is the small lithium battery of 3 volts (usually) located on the computer's motherboard.CMOS by the way means "
complementary metal oxide semiconductor" and that battery looks like this (in normal desktop computers like yours):
And this is how the CMOS battery looks like when it's on the motherboard:
Your motherboard probably looks different than the one on this picture above,but don't worry.CMOS battery looks always the same on all type of motherboards.
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Sometimes (very very very rarely) BIOS can get messed up and report that the CMOS battery is bad even if it's not bad.So before you buy the new one,try this:
-unplug ALL cables from the computer...
-click the power button few times to release all left power...
-pull that CMOS battery out and click the power button few times again...
-wait for 10 minutes at least...
-return back the CMOS battery...
-plug all the cables back to the computer...
-turn on the computer...
-you might (hopefuly) get the BIOS error (not related to CMOS) that the settings are not adjusted or something similar to that.You might also get an error that says something like:"BIOS CMOS CHECKSUM ERROR!"
But don't worry about that since it is not related to "bad" CMOS battery.Error usually looks like this (look at the bottom of the picture.It says:"CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded"):
So go into BIOS and LOAD OPTIMIZED DEFAULTS and then SAVE THE SETTINGS...
-computer will restart...
-after the computer has restarted,go into BIOS again and put your CD/DVD-ROM disk drive to be the first device to boot from and your hard disk drive (HDD) to be the second device to boot from...
-SAVE THE BIOS SETTINGS...
-computer will restart...
Now you are ready to make a clean installation of the Microsoft Windows 7 computer operating system.
NOTE: Be sure that you delete ALL the partitions on that HDD before performing the installation process of the Microsoft Windows 7 computer operating system!Here is how the section with the partitions looks like:
Cheers folks!