The battery on the motherboard

If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit one
day and that was it.
If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, attilathehun1

Meebers
Sun Jun 01 18:13:03 PDT 2008

Should be ok...you might have to go back in BIOS and tweek it the way you
had it before.

"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
> working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
> didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit
> one
> day and that was it.
> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1

peter
Sun Jun 01 18:53:05 PDT 2008

That depends upon at which point it stopped working....not working when you
turn it on.. or. .did it stop in the middle of some task ..
That little Battery keeps the CMOS alive when you are powered off...the CMOS
stores all of the BIOS information which tells the computer how and what to
start...If the Battery fails you lose that information and the system will
fail to start...replace the battery and the BIOS will reset itself to
Factory Default as such any custom settings would need to be re-entered and
it will function as before.

Stopping in the middle of a running task and shutting down is a different
problem which would require more info from you.

peter

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"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
> working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
> didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit
> one
> day and that was it.
> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1

David
Mon Jun 02 06:39:40 PDT 2008

What do you mean by "didn't start up"?
It may cause loss of BIOS data and a failure to boot, but it is an extremely
rare occasion that it won't allow a PC to power on and produce an error
message.

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"attilathehun1" <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89C224DC-13C7-4951-9CC8-6DB98EA23C51@microsoft.com...
> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
> working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
> didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit
> one
> day and that was it.
> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1

Gurney
Mon Jun 02 15:56:20 PDT 2008

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:06:01 -0700, attilathehun1
<attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
>working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
>didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit one
>day and that was it.
> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1
This has NOTHING to do with the OS and is out of place HERE. Of
course you already know this but given the troll that you are you just
ask wherever you want regardless.

Ask elsewhere

JohnO
Mon Jun 02 18:24:43 PDT 2008


"Gurney" <none@nobody.net> wrote in message
news:hfu844h6aql9d5mbkfd65takvgkag486ej@4ax.com...
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:06:01 -0700, attilathehun1
> <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
>>working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
>>didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit
>>one
>>day and that was it.
>> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks, attilathehun1
> This has NOTHING to do with the OS and is out of place HERE. Of
> course you already know this but given the troll that you are you just
> ask wherever you want regardless.
>
> Ask elsewhere
>

I get the feeling that post started with a high-pitched squeal and faded
into a moan. Anyway, it's best to ignore this troll.

-John O

VanguardLH
Mon Jun 02 23:16:19 PDT 2008

"David B." wrote in <news:eIIhcYLxIHA.4848@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl>:

> What do you mean by "didn't start up"?
> It may cause loss of BIOS data and a failure to boot, but it is an extremely
> rare occasion that it won't allow a PC to power on and produce an error
> message.

Some motherboards will not POST is the battery is missing or dead. I
believe the Asus A7V333 is like this. I've run into 2 of them (don't
know which mobos, however). Kony over in alt.comp.hardware, I believe,
has also run into some of these mobos.

VanguardLH
Mon Jun 02 23:23:29 PDT 2008

"attilathehun1" wrote in
<news:89C224DC-13C7-4951-9CC8-6DB98EA23C51@microsoft.com>:

> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
> working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
> didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit one
> day and that was it.
> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks, attilathehun1

Replace the battery. You gave no information (brand and model) of your
motherboard but it likely uses the CR-2032 3V lithium coin cell; see
http://www.batteriesplus.com/p-28434-nucr2032-3v-lithium-coin-battery.aspx
for an example picture.

If you modified any BIOS settings from their defaults (before the
battery went dead), you'll have to set them again.

VanguardLH
Mon Jun 02 23:24:16 PDT 2008

"Gurney" wrote in <news:hfu844h6aql9d5mbkfd65takvgkag486ej@4ax.com>:

> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:06:01 -0700, attilathehun1
> <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
>>working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one day
>>didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit one
>>day and that was it.
>> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>> Thanks, attilathehun1
> This has NOTHING to do with the OS and is out of place HERE. Of
> course you already know this but given the troll that you are you just
> ask wherever you want regardless.
>
> Ask elsewhere

And we'll just keep on answering those questions in this newsgroup just
because it is so very satisfying to irritate you.

Bill
Mon Jun 02 23:30:56 PDT 2008

VanguardLH wrote:
> "Gurney" wrote in <news:hfu844h6aql9d5mbkfd65takvgkag486ej@4ax.com>:
>
>> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:06:01 -0700, attilathehun1
>> <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
>>> working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one
>>> day
>>> didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit
>>> one
>>> day and that was it.
>>> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>> Thanks, attilathehun1
>> This has NOTHING to do with the OS and is out of place HERE. Of
>> course you already know this but given the troll that you are you just
>> ask wherever you want regardless.
>>
>> Ask elsewhere
>
> And we'll just keep on answering those questions in this newsgroup just
> because it is so very satisfying to irritate you.

LOL!

Big_Al
Tue Jun 03 04:57:56 PDT 2008

Bill in Co. wrote:
> VanguardLH wrote:
>> "Gurney" wrote in <news:hfu844h6aql9d5mbkfd65takvgkag486ej@4ax.com>:
>>
>>> On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 18:06:01 -0700, attilathehun1
>>> <attilathehun1@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> If the battery is not working anymore will that cause the PC to stop
>>>> working? I checked the 3 volt 2032 battery and it was dead. The PC one
>>>> day
>>>> didn't start up. Nothing was replaced or upgraded or installed. It quit
>>>> one
>>>> day and that was it.
>>>> If I put a new battery onto the motherboard will it start up and be ok?
>>>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>>> Thanks, attilathehun1
>>> This has NOTHING to do with the OS and is out of place HERE. Of
>>> course you already know this but given the troll that you are you just
>>> ask wherever you want regardless.
>>>
>>> Ask elsewhere
>> And we'll just keep on answering those questions in this newsgroup just
>> because it is so very satisfying to irritate you.
>
> LOL!
>
>
The only problem is he's creating a list of dead names other users can't
use. I know I've got 3 of them. Not sure how long your killfile is for
this but if some poor unsuspecting person uses oldduke one day I'll
never see his messages.