Re: motherboard battery failure?

mig wrote:

> over the past few weeks i have noticed that the system clock seems to be
> loosing time randomly, anything from a few minutes upto 24 hours, and
> although i have a program that corrects this every hour it is never right
> for more than an hour at a time. also when i turn my pc off overnight, when
> i come to boot it up the next day the time is the same as it was when it was
> turned off.
>
> i want to know whether the motherboard battery has anything to do with the
> system clock as this is the simplest reason i can think of, a dead mb
> battery.
>
> motherboard is ECS K7S5A btw
>


Yes, the battery keeps the system clock, but nrmaly if your battery is
on its way out, it will also lose the bios setings, but then it may not
be at that point yet.
How old is the motherboard?