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    CMOS battery dying. What are the symptoms?

    I do not think that the cmos battery has any function other than being the backup supply for the bootup RAM. This stores all your boot preferences even when the computer power supply is off. In case it has gone bad, while booting you should get the prompt that boot defaults are being used...
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    Booting Problem!!

    I have a four year old desktop computer... :-) The configuration is: Athlon XP 1.6 512MB DDR 40GB HDD MSI Motherboard.. WIN2K The problem is that it just wont boot. The symptoms started showing up few days back, when it used to restart on its own suddenly when I loaded some...