Main machine down help needed

[Indianatone]

You may want to replace the 3 V Cell CR 2032 which backs up the CMOS settings. Sounds like it flat, dead, discharged.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yes Mike I know but it changed nothing still the BIOS resetting itself on the other CPU fan plug in and Indianatone I suppose I can not lose anything by changing that battery even though the BIOS and HW Info are showing it at the correct voltage and I suppose it is the very original one - perhaps it is just not working at the correct voltage when the machine gets cold??
I just cannot think of anything that would change the BIOS settings after it has been shut down

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
I would hope on new hardware the bios would reset if the setting in the bios was set to do so
Mine does if an oc was off and it shut off prematurely...
Hasn't happen since I got rid of GPU tweak though that is one shit utility along with AI Suite 2..

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Ok Mike I think I have that GPU tweak on that machine I am not real sure as I seem to remember it being on the software disk that came with the board. It could explain the gradual number of issues that have happened over the last few months as I know the NVidia drivers have been updating on a regular basis.

First up I think a try with a new battery is the go.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Update Mike and Indianatone but have replaced the CMOS battery and set the BIOS gain and date and time of course - powered off and drained the PSU and powered back on and it has booted no problems I don't know about a real cold start yet but here's hoping.

Oh the old battery was 1.02v when I checked it.

 

[Indianatone]

To quote Star Trek "It's dead Jim" Sounds like the battery has been giving you grief.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yep mate I thought these things lasted for around six years but it was a brand I am not familiar with and who knows how long it had been installed before I bought the board eh??

Anyway it is now fixed thanks to both of you and although it is still a bit slow starting up - no grumbling of course it is very quick between tabs or programs that I have open or want to open - a lot faster. Plus no odd behaviours like bringing up stuff I have not asked for.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yea on asus disk is both of the utilities I mentioned plus a whole lot more
The win-10 chipset driver was completely filled with unnesesary crapware I didn't even install any of it.

Also Intel security which we should all know is nothing but Mcafee renamed
There is very little on the installation disk worth loading you really have to do the custom install with it and look and see
Even the usb3 and 3.1 drivers were mostly crapware

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yes Mike it took me a little while to work tht one out and I didn't know M$ was hooked up to MuckAfee somehow - I wonder why so called intelligent people would do that with what I consider to be a piece of rubbish.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi oh my,
If Mcafee was preinstalled clean install would be necessary but I believe this machine came with win-8 or 10 so you had to do that anyway.

The chipset driver for 7 was a little different though it actually did have a chipset driver... on it
But also came with a bunch of crapware that seemed to have unnecessary utilities that were not needed.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Powered up this afternoon only to find the BIOS was again changing the boot settings and I am now wondering if updating my Kaspersky to 2017 version may have caused this after what Mike said about Eset because I can't imagine the new battery could be dead already and it is a good brand one too.

Am now wondering if I should re flash the BIOS even though the version is the current one??

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
You might try Panda free for a little while and see if the settings get changed
I use it and never had any settings come up different than what I have chosen.

You have mbam premium too I believe so security wise you'd still be good to go

I doubt it's a bios thing.

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yes Mike I only run free MBAM and it could be the Kaspersky but I hav been using that since 2010 but any port in a storm.

Now do you reckon reflashing th BIOS even though the current version is the same as the latest one?? I just don't want to brick the board if I do that, because that update version was meant to fix bugs they found but like I say it was a long time ago.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
As far as I'm aware of I'm on the original bios on all my machines

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Yes well I am still on the version that was recommended shortly after I built it because it was supposed to fix bugs so I am just wondering if the BIOS has become a bit corrupted or just disorganised and needs a nudge back into place to get it back into shape??.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
No telling I'm too chicken to flash bios

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well Mike I am a bit that way inclined to to be honest