CMOS Battery Change?

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A long time since I visited the site and would appreciate some help please.

10 year old budget build (parts from Overclockers) and all has been fine till now.

I have had issues with Windows not loading (hanging) recently but OK on a reset. Also the POST time till first beep can take a minute too and then generally boots up fine.

In light of the MB being 10 years old, I thought maybe it is the battery that needs changing - would you agree. Once changed is the only thing that be required to do be change the date & time. Would it boot to Windows still with wrong date & time or will it automatically direct me to BIOS or should I go straight there with F2.

Thanks in anticipation.
 
Yeah it's probably overdue
A new cmos battery
It can cause weird issues
Boot into bios and set time and date
If you have overclocking settings
Or particular bios adjustments to ram timings etc
I would save those to a profile first
As its likely to load the default settings
 
Yup, I've had to change a CMOS or two in my time.10 years, most definitely will probably need a new one.

I agree with @Mcnumpty2323 best to head straight into bios.
 
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