just replaced my motherboards battery

[raildogg]

Do I just leave everything where it is at? Or do I make changes in the BIOS?

After installing the new battery it said no diskette or something to that effect. So I just entered no floppy drive installed in the BIOS and now everything seems fine. Does that mean this battery replacement was successful?

I also just synchronized the time so it is correct.

Before I got this battery today, I kept getting a error "Low Battery Voltage".

Thanks for any help.

 

[Cheezeit]

you are fine now

if you overclocked, your settings would have been erased, but all you have to do is reconfigure the bios

 

[raildogg]

thanks

no, i just leave everything at default, so i guess my settings after the battery was replaced are also default

just in case, i'll pop in the old battery and see if the settings are the same

 

[Cheezeit]

you don't really need to check

all that taking the battery out does is clear cmos since the power to it is gone

 

[raildogg]

lmao, i made a boob out of myself, should of though about that

so basically, a lithium battery is like a cell phone's battery? it just provides the power, but doesn't actually store any information?

 

[alexXx]

i say this in the kindest way possible.. but why would you think the old battery would 'hold' different settings than your new battery. It is just a battery so installing the old one wont get your settings back

 

[Cheezeit]

Originally posted by: raildogg
lmao, i made a boob out of myself, should of though about that

so basically, a lithium battery is like a cell phone's battery? it just provides the power, but doesn't actually store any information?

correct.

they use lithiums in watches ,scales and everything. lithium is just a battery type that lasts longer than regular ones. kinda like alkaline for AA and AAA's.

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: alexXx
i say this in the kindest way possible.. but why would you think the old battery would 'hold' different settings than your new battery. It is just a battery so installing the old one wont get your settings back

i realize that, i wasn't thinking clearly

on my old computer, which is about 7 or 8 years old, the battery is still going strong. on this computer, which is about 2 years old or so, the battery needed replacing.