Re: Can a bad CMOS battery cause a computer to not boot up?
All of the above and maybe a bad driver installation. Have you updated any drivers lately? If it worked well at some point, have you tried a system restore point prior to when it started happening? Jay
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One thing I would suggest doing, take the power cord out of the back of computer, press the catch on the plug and pull out the main power plug going to the board, place back in and make sure it is well...
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Well, then yeah, I am running on windows XP pro, Thanks anyways
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sometimes my clock resets like 4-8 hours behind what it should be?
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If your clock is behind, then it is your CMOS battery?
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Just reading this forum and I had such a surprise over the weekend with this one so thought I'd share it with everyone. At the weekend I went camping and took my laptop with me, we use the laptop for a...
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A bios battery can definately stop a computer from booting. I fix computers as a hobby and I have had at least 8 machines in the past 5 years that have been completely dead. Of the 8, half were found...
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If the battery goes bad it would not cause the computer to freeze. What will happen is that everytime you unplug or the computer looses power, you will get a screen at startup saying CMOS checksum...
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In addition to my previous post, the problem you are describing is usually the result of a device failing. It could be the memmory however I would unplug EVERYTHING except the keyboard, mouse and...
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Yes, this most certainly can cause the computer not to boot. I see this every day on my job (Systems Analyst). In fact, it happens so frequently that we keep a lot of CMOS batteries on hand. Also, if...
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well looks like most people think the comos battery will not stop the computer from booting; however my experience it can I have experienced the problem a couple times. After replacing the battery the...
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New on the site, got my solution from here so I thought I would add my experience. On an emachines T6212 I had a partial boot condition that kept getting worse, if I did get it to boot into Windows a...
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Spoke too soon, woke up to a black screen, took 5 tries to get it to boot. Could it be the power supply? It did make 1 beep on one try...
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