CMOS BATTERY

[Mickey Mouse]

Hi, just wondering if I remove my cmos battery will any loss be incurred in
respect to any settings. I'd like to replace it as a matter of maintenance
but concerned about losing settings.

Mickey

 

[Guest]

Usually when the battery gets disconnected one must enter the BIOS upon
restarting computer,the date/time needs to be reset,sometimes all the
settings
need to be reconfigured.On some boards,little or no settings get upset unless
its disconnected for 30 seconds or more,but if anything only the BIOS.

 

[Galen]

In Mickey Mouse <.> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Hi, just wondering if I remove my cmos battery will any loss be
incurred in respect to any settings. I'd like to replace it as a
matter of maintenance but concerned about losing settings.

Mickey

Plan on the worst. Plan on "all settings" being hosed. That's not likely
true but it's the best practice in this case. Either take a shot of the
settings with a digital camera or write down anything that you see. Chances
are you can remember a good deal of them and many of them are defaults.
Those setup utilities should have an option to save your settings to disk...
But yeah, plan on losing everything but know that you probably won't. Just
in case though, plan on it and copy all the settings JUST to be safe. The
whole bit about an ounce of prevention? It applies here.

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[Bruce Chambers]

Hi, just wondering if I remove my cmos battery will any loss be incurred in
respect to any settings. I'd like to replace it as a matter of maintenance
but concerned about losing settings.

Mickey

If you've altered any of the BIOS settings from their defaults, they'll
certainly be lost. The whole purpose of that battery is to maintain
those settings. What's the specific problem that makes changing the
battery a "matter of maintenance?"


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Bruce Chambers

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[Mickey Mouse]

It was just a thought... My rig is getting old and it's been turned off from
the power for a couple of months while I was on holiday so the cmos battery
has been working overtime. I believe they are only good for about three
years anyway.

Mickey