CMOS Settings Wrong

[Deathgazer]

Sigh, back for another problem.

PC is about 2 months old now. About 2 weeks ago I started receiving an error
message while booting up. Very shortly after I boot up the PC, I receive a black
screen that points to "CMOS Settings Wrong" "Date/Time not set".

Press F1 to run SETUP, Press F2 to load default values and continue. Or something like that. At first I just pressed F2, it booted up normally, except my date and time were wrong. Went ahead and fixed it, np. A few days and some restarts later (doesn't do it during EVERY restart, but definitely some), I boot up and get the same message. This time I hit F1 and put in the correct date and time. I hit the save hotkey and it boots up normally with the time and date I just entered, np.

Basically, same problem, a few restarts or so days later, same thing all over again, regardless of if I F2 or F1. Most of them were normal restarts, nothing strange, although this time I was playing CoD: MW2 when the game froze up/sound skipping, so I turned the PC off, tried to turn the PC back on, and nothing... I know the mobo had power, the mobo light was on. Although pushing the power button did nothing.. I turned off the back power switch, replugged the power plug, turned the power switch back on, the mobo light lit back up, pushed the power button on the front, nothing... Tried this for a lil while with no luck. Ended up going to watch some TV, then I heard the boot sound and it had booted back up.

Whats the deal? I heard somewhere it might be a bad BIOS battery? Possibly dying on me? After a quick glimpse I couldn't find anything that resembled one on the mobo, but it's a bit late/dark and I might have missed it.

This is a desktop. Plenty of cooling, and never overclocked. Only thing that was done to the PC was took out a bad ram stick a few weeks or so ago.

 

[ryo]

Sigh, back for another problem.

PC is about 2 months old now. About 2 weeks ago I started receiving an error
message while booting up. Very shortly after I boot up the PC, I receive a black
screen that points to "CMOS Settings Wrong" "Date/Time not set".

Press F1 to run SETUP, Press F2 to load default values and continue. Or something like that. At first I just pressed F2, it booted up normally, except my date and time were wrong. Went ahead and fixed it, np. A few days and some restarts later (doesn't do it during EVERY restart, but definitely some), I boot up and get the same message. This time I hit F1 and put in the correct date and time. I hit the save hotkey and it boots up normally with the time and date I just entered, np.

Basically, same problem, a few restarts or so days later, same thing all over again, regardless of if I F2 or F1. Most of them were normal restarts, nothing strange, although this time I was playing CoD: MW2 when the game froze up/sound skipping, so I turned the PC off, tried to turn the PC back on, and nothing... I know the mobo had power, the mobo light was on. Although pushing the power button did nothing.. I turned off the back power switch, replugged the power plug, turned the power switch back on, the mobo light lit back up, pushed the power button on the front, nothing... Tried this for a lil while with no luck. Ended up going to watch some TV, then I heard the boot sound and it had booted back up.

Whats the deal? I heard somewhere it might be a bad BIOS battery? Possibly dying on me? After a quick glimpse I couldn't find anything that resembled one on the mobo, but it's a bit late/dark and I might have missed it.

This is a desktop. Plenty of cooling, and never overclocked. Only thing that was done to the PC was took out a bad ram stick a few weeks or so ago.

your battery CMOS is low.. you have to change new one of it..and after that change the setting data/time on BIOS.

 

[win7clutz]

Do we have this right, the PC is 2 months old and you have alredy replaced one stick of ram...

Your specs say the manufacturer is Velocity Micro. From your post it appears to be a mobo problem, so have you contacted Velocity?

Did they replace the bad ram or did you purchase else ware?

They should be your first course of action...

 

[Zomby88]

It is silver and about the size of a dime. Can`t believe a 2 month old pc needs a new cmos battery but it does sound like the culprit.

 

[Deathgazer]

Ah thanks, was hoping to narrow down the problem before I let Velocity Micro know. And yeah... it's still pretty new and they've already had to send me a new stick of ram to replace the bad one. And now this. I think this started happening around the same day or right after I took out the bad stick of ram. (didn't get the new stick till a few weeks later)

Aside from the hardware issues it's a good PC. Thanks for the info, 'hopefully' it will be an easy fix.

 

[win7clutz]

...Aside from the hardware issues it's a good PC. Thanks for the info, 'hopefully' it will be an easy fix.

Interesting post... They provided the hardware, yet aside from the hardware issues it's a "Good PC"...

Good luck with this...

 

[DocBrown]

Battery on MB looks similar to this pic ! A very common battery ID # is 2032

 

[ryo]

Battery on MB looks similar to this pic ! A very common battery ID # is 2032

what socket is it??

 

[Deathgazer]

Was looking at my mobo - Newegg.com - Computer Parts, PC Components, Laptop Computers, LED LCD TV, Digital Cameras and more!

And from the looks of it, I couldn't find it cause its gotta be hiding underneath this brick of a graphics card.
Well at least now I know where it's at, thanks.

 

[DocBrown]

Battery on MB looks similar to this pic ! A very common battery ID # is 2032

what socket is it??

Good question ryo ?


Deathgazer can you run CPU-Z Freeware program to check you MB socket & CPU ?

 

[Deathgazer]

Sure thing:

 

[ryo]

Sure thing:

your socket is intel

 

[woolswell]

The brief introduuction of your mobo is here, and you can download its manual here.

 

[bobtran]

Probably just a batch of batteries that have been sitting too long before being installed and there it is between the pci slots...easy to get to(just like changing a watch battery). Good luck with this issue, sounds like a reasonable machine to me and the fact they took care of the ram is a good sign (hardware failures can and do occur...usually reasonably soon after install or new pc startup (this has been my experience....if it doesn't fail in the first 60 days it will usually last a long time)).

 

[CommonTater]

your battery CMOS is low.. you have to change new one of it..and after that change the setting data/time on BIOS.

It might also just be not locked into it's holder correctly...
The easy way to find out is to lift it out and snap it back in. If the problem goes away, they're all set.

 

[Deathgazer]

Thought I fixed the problem but it's back again.. Screen froze on a black screen while I was asleep. Didn't respond to anything so I had to do a hard-shutdown. Proceeded to hit the power button to boot it back up... nothing, did not power up at all, although the motherboard light was on so it's definitely getting power. Went afk, about 10 to 15 minutes later the PC powered itself up but the monitor wasn't getting a signal. Had to hard reboot again. Same thing all over again. PC shut off, hit power button, 10ish minutes later it powers on. "No Signal" on the monitor.

Tried it again... Hard shutdown, hit power button, 10 minutes later it powers on. Monitor loads up this time and I get the "CMOS SETTINGS WRONG" "DATE/TIME NOT SET" screen. Hit F2, desktop loads up, I start up firefox, then the computer seems to stop responding. The mouse cursor moved around fine, although nothing seemed to be loading up or responding. CTRL+Shift+Escape.. nothing. Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL and it took me to a pure black screen and stayed there. Had to hard shutdown again....

Anyone know what the problem could be? I replaced the CMOS battery a few weeks ago and it wasn't have any trouble until today. Maybe it's another bad battery or not seated right? Although that's hard to believe. Or could it be something else since it takes so long just to decide to power up?

Thanks again

 

[Deathgazer]

Just replaced the CMOS battery again. Didn't seem to help anything. PC doesn't seem to want to power up at all now.

Edit: It powered on like an hour after I messed with it... ugh

 

[Deathgazer]

Update: Computer is powering up fine now, although it's still giving me the CMOS SETTINGS WRONG DATE/TIME NOT SET message on boot. Even though I've changed the cmos battery twice..

 

[ryo]

sound's great..for your information..the CMOS battery for CPU standard is about 3A of electric, so just make sure that's the battery have least 3A on it.

 

[Deathgazer]

It's a "CR2032 Lithium Battery SUPER 3V"