Motherboard Battery - ?

[onieda]

What type of things would I expect to see if the battery on my motherboard was dead or dying?

I have a brand new Gigabyte 7dxr+ (http://www.giga-byte.com/products/7dxr+.htm) and the BIOS has been giving me a bit of a prob, and I don't get proper restarts, it goes down, but never seems to come back up. This was happening before I installed any OS.

Thanks,
Onieda

 

[AndyHui]

The most obvious sign of a dead motherboard battery is that the clock is unable to keep the time correctly, or settings are always lost.

 

[daveshel]

Those aren't battery symptoms. Check to see if there's something grounding out the motherboard. I once was doing a build in a case that had a standoff where there was no mounting hole on the motherboard. I could go into the BIOS but it didn't work right (don't remember exactly). The unused standoff was shorting something.