Just finished my 3rd PC and ran into a problem that I thought might be useful if I mention it to people just starting out...
My brand new motherboard came complete - with a flat CMOS battery. The symptoms were that i kept loading into the "first" bios screen as if it was the first time I had switched it on. The XMP setting would not stay on and the system clock kept going back to 1/1 and time 00.00.
After some panicking about it being a hardware fault etc I realised these were all indicating a faulty/dead battery - which I didnt realise could actually be a thing on a brand new board - a bit of research told me that its actually fairly common..
Did mean I had to take the GPU back out and lift a heatsink to get at the battery but could have been worse as I was on the verge of pulling memory etc and RMA,ing stuff.
My brand new motherboard came complete - with a flat CMOS battery. The symptoms were that i kept loading into the "first" bios screen as if it was the first time I had switched it on. The XMP setting would not stay on and the system clock kept going back to 1/1 and time 00.00.
After some panicking about it being a hardware fault etc I realised these were all indicating a faulty/dead battery - which I didnt realise could actually be a thing on a brand new board - a bit of research told me that its actually fairly common..
Did mean I had to take the GPU back out and lift a heatsink to get at the battery but could have been worse as I was on the verge of pulling memory etc and RMA,ing stuff.
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