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Nope, have you ever tried booting without any battery at all? Just curious how that would turn out. I've had a number of battery failures before but it only seemed to affect system time and initial setups. It never stopped the computer from running. What kind of a motherboard was in that one?

Yep, I seen this in 3 specific situations:

1. BIOS was flashed. CMOS often needs to be reset after flashing the BIOS, replacing the battery can have the same effect as running the CMOS reset procedure.

2. Weak battery. A weak battery can cause the logic levels to be at an 'indeterminate' state. The logic levels from the CMOS can be in between a logic 1 and 0. This can cause the BIOS to lock the first time it looks for a value from the CMOS.

3. Socket A SDRAM motherboards. I have seen several socket A SDRAM motherboards that set the wrong CPU FSB and multiplier. For whatever reason, this can cause both boot and shutdown problems.

Chas

i get that poublem all the time with 486's and older p1's batt.don't last for ever !

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