battery question

[IFICUDIWUD]

I mean loike when i tunrn on computet the date is changed and i have to go into the bios to change it.. it has my processor speed all boogered up and wont let me change the settings all kinds of stuff i cant change.. I suspect my cmos battery might be dying.. boxis over 5 years old. ecs k7s5a with an amd xp1600 chip.. this is the first problem i've ever had with the box other than a case fan burned up about a year ago . Can anyone tell me how to replace or reset? My wife is using this box for her business and i really need to fix it

 

[IFICUDIWUD]

would it help to maybe reset my cmos or just replace the batteries and hope for the best?

 

[Lord Evermore]

There's a possibility the battery is dying, but that wouldn't stop you from changing settings, it would just stop it from saving them. I assume you've changed the settings before so you know exactly how to do it, usually you have to change one setting first to "enable" changing other settings. It's been a while since I looked at the BIOS settings for a K7S5A.

You can buy a new battery, some grocery stores or pharmacies sell them, or RadioShack or CompUSA or the like. It is a CR2032 model. Here's a quick page about changing it. The battery clip is just a spring-loaded thing, no real force should be needed to remove it.

That may or may not fix the problem. A friend of mine had a K7S5A a while back which also kept losing its configuration, but not every time he shut down or unplugged it. Even with a new battery it kept doing it until we just replaced the mainboard. The K7S5A is just a value board, made cheap. Didn't think it was quite 5 years ago that it came out though, but wow.

 

[Peter]

The CPU bus speed flips back to 100 MHz when it failed to boot at 133. Examine CPU fan and heatsink, look for leaking or bulged capacitors around it.