System battery voltage is low (?)

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I got this weird message when I booted up on a black screen. It said to press
F1 tp continue. The thing is this is a desktop, not a laptop.
Any ideas?
 
Jen said:
I got this weird message when I booted up on a black screen. It said
to press F1 tp continue. The thing is this is a desktop, not a laptop.
Any ideas?
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You probably need to replace the battery on the motherboard.
 
Jen said:
I got this weird message when I booted up on a black screen. It said to
press
F1 tp continue. The thing is this is a desktop, not a laptop.
Any ideas?
Click to expand...

Yes, it means you need to replace the battery on the motherboard. Desktops
*do* have batteries to keep the data that the BIOS stores in CMOS memory.

Shut down, unplug, open the case, look for the nickel or quarter sized
battery. Read off the type, then go get another. Remove the old one, put
the new one in, close the case and restart teh computer. You may well have
to go through the BIOS to let it reset the items it's forgotten, one of
which will be the current date/time.

HTH
-pk
 
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