Couple Weird Problems Maybe the CMOS Battery?

[Rob Racki]

I just moved into this Gateway 950mhz Athlon from a Dell 666mhz after the
6th Gateway Harddrive crashed that we have owned. So I swapped the hard
drives and formatted them both an installed Windows XP Pro SP 2 and I notice
a couple of weird problems. When I start the computer from being off I get
an error message that says "NO ROM BASIC System Halted". When I hit CTR ALT
DEL everything runs normal and if I restart I dont get this message. I
looked the problem up on google and it says it has to do with the
partitioning of the hard drives which i partioned both the way windows xp
pro told me to.

The second two problems maybe have to do with this problem but I notice
everytime I restart the computer I lose time and even when its on for a
while I will lose a couple minutes. The third problem is when I restart my
computer number lock usually comes on automatically and it no longer does.
For the time problem I just tried a post that went into cmd and re installed
the time sync. Well see if that works?

I was thinking maybe the battery is dead? And it is forgetting some of the
little settings?

Thank you,

Robert

 

[Richard Urban]

Seeing as how a new battery costs 3-4 bucks, and is real simple to change
out, I would certainly start with that.

Perform the simple first. If it doesn't pan out you can then progress.

But, wouldn't you feel foolish if you spent 6-8 hours troubleshooting your
computer and "then" determined that the battery was bad?

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Bob I]

Is the drive configured as Master and jumpered properly? I have seen
simular when the drive was set as slave and was not set as boot drive.