BleepingComputer.com: How Do I Fix Or Replace My Cmos Battery?

Ok Richie and I have tried almost everytthing and he suggested I fix or replace my cmos battery. everytime my computer reboots it gets reset to january 31, 2008.... everything we have tried gets lost.. he feels confident it is not a virus and is my battery..... i am hoping this is a quick and/or easy fix.. like changing a watch battery???? please tell me i am correct..... i have run belarc adviser and attached the file i hope someone can assist...thank you steve




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a battery failing might cause that if the computer bios was dated from january 31, 2008 but that's only a couple of weeks ago?

Are you sure about that date?

there might be something really deep left in your system causing this?


anyway the battery is the L in this picture

http://cgi.ebay.ph/Gateway-Intel-Yorktown-...bayphotohosting

This post has been edited by DaChew: 16 February 2008 - 10:02 PM

Replacing the CMOS battery is an easy thing to do, and the battery is the cheapest part of your computer's innards. I know from experience that the thought of doing it yourself is intimidating, wondering if you're going to do something that will blow the computer up. All I can say is if I can do it, anyone can.

The links below will give you info on the process:


How To Install A CMOS Battery

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

I really love this site and thank you both for your help///



chewy i agree with you and feel there may be something else going on but i will admit i have tired almost everyting i can think of and richieuk was great.... the main problem is that everytime i install a new program it reboots my system and i lose everything... i have resorted to emialing everyhing to my msn accout and holding it there and then reinstalling as needed can you suggest some way to scan without rebooting??? i have run all kinds of diagnostic programs and nothing says anything about the battery... unhackme found all kinds of problems but again i can not fix becaues it keeps making me reboot.... ???please help....

let's look at the hardware part of this first and see if I can explain how this might play out, if you clear cmos or remove the battery(same effect as a failing battery) then the bios loses it's programable settings including it's internal clock, it reverts to it's birthday and bios defaults

now one thing to investigate might be to look at bios and see if it's write protected, this is a switch that can be turned on or off in bios?

when your computer boots bios hands the time off to windows(windows can't keep track of it when it's not loaded) but then windows can change the time in bios

to be continued after I confirm, I just set my clock back to 2007

and when I looked in bios it was feb 16 2007

if you were to clear cmos or remove the battery and replace it back and then go directly into bios on booting it should show that the date is the born on date? After booting into windows if it changes to jan 31 then I would rule out the battery and try to find out why?

do you have any suggestions on how to fiind out what is going on here??? i will tell you that i did run combofix when told to do so and it did change my time as it should but the computer crashed and i was thinking this may be part of the cause... what do you need me to do for you to be able to help... i have downloaded so many programs and antivirures i will be happy to fix at this point...

I skimmed your thread, it was over my head, try my test

power down the computer, pull power cord, wait

pull the cmos battery out, wait

put it back in

power cord back in, power up the computer, go directly into bios and note the time

being a factory built computer it shouldn't have many if any special settings you need to adjust

set the correct time while you are there but note what the time and date were before you change it

save and boot into windows

see if it changed anything

No luck i have spent the last few hours reinstalling again.. can anyone help???? is there a backup that is integrated into windows xp??? something seems to be backing up my files and reinstalling for the date of the 29-31 of january???? i can not find it but i found the files all over the place i deleted but they keep coming back??? could combofix do this if shut down early???? HELP!!!!

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What exactly have you done? some details please?


Several years ago(long ago and far away) my teenage son built his first computer, he kept tweaking the bios to try to enhance his gaming experience. His computer became unstable. He came to me and said he had a boot sector virus.
I did a little reading up on the problem and found some old references to a virus actually making changes to the bios.
I took his drive out of his machine and using a floppy wrote zeros to the drive, this wiped it clean, we flashed his bios to
rewrite it, and then reloaded windows 98. A few weeks later he had it messed up again, I went into bios and set it back to defaults and it was fixed.

This post has been edited by DaChew: 17 February 2008 - 07:42 AM

i will admit i have been trying to make it faster... until may i was on dial up and it was crazy... is there a way to see what i did??? i ran belarc and it tells me i am missing msupdates but they are not availible also i keep getting an error message about an iis someting or other>>>

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A bad cmos battery will cause the system to lose time when powered off. They generally last about 4 or 5 years.
Its a CR2032 battery. Radio Shack has them for about 5 bucks. BUT if it is not losing time when off the battery is probably ok.

I wonder if you have the system set to synch the time with an Internet time server?
Go to date time properties. Look in the far right tab. I forget what it says right off. See if the checkbox to synch with a time server is checked. If so, uncheck it then set the date & time & see if it stays

the time was always corret till i ran combofix... i did what you suggested and the box was indeed checked i am afraid to reboot till i get backed up but i will let ou know

thanks

apparently it was a virus i reinstaled windows and it seemed to correct but i am missing an IIS file?? how do i fix that>