CMOS Error!

azzerz · 9 Mar 2007 at 13:25

Hey guys,

Built my new PC in December - It booted up fine other than having a checksum error which forced me to re-set the cmos everytime i wanted to bootup.

One day I went into the bios and it said "Save to CMOS" so I did that and it worked

However I recently bought a few coolers (Tuniq Tower 120, 2HD Coolers and an exaust) and when I booted for the first time I had the same problem.

Would anyone know how to fix this?

My PC specs:

Abit AB9 Pro,
C2D 6400,
7900GS nVidia
2GB Ultra low latency Geil RAM,
Hyper PSU
160GB HD
80GB HD

Thanks for any help/advice

Cyber Hamster · 9 Mar 2007 at 16:45

I would try changing the mobo battery might be that or perhaps the bios may need flashing to an updated version... Failing that it could be a faulty Mobo

azzerz · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:05

Would you know where to get another battery?

And how would I go about flashing my bios?

Cyber Hamster · 9 Mar 2007 at 17:14

CMOS batterys you can get from any electrical store or any where you can get watch batterys, (I got one from sainburys).. make sure you get the right one though. As for the bios check out the manufacturers website for your mobo there should be details on how to flash it there.And will ether involve a windows based flash program or a floppy/bootdisk.