CMOS Battery Question?
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Take the battery down to Radio Shack.
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Maybe your CMOS battery has ran out! you can google it to find out more information!\n\nHope this helps!
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if your bios is losing its information check the battery on the mother board. It is one of those round watch batteries.
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The above answers about using a voltage regulator sound ok.  Just make sure to check out the regulator's data sheet so that it can safely regulate what DC voltage you are giving it (though with this 12V case you shouldn't have a problem).\n\nAlso, when a battery is rated at 12V, 30A the battery doesn't necessarily output 30A at all times; that is just a full load rating given for safety reasons (don't want to overload the battery).  The battery is a constant voltage source so you can certainly have a load that pulls much less than 30A.\n\nWidth of wire?  You shouldn't be too concerned with this at these low voltages.  Just use breadboard type wire (around 22 AWG I believe).\n\nAlso, one final comment from me... why use a car battery when you can use a more convenient source of DC voltage?  If you want something that can conveniently power your IC's try one of those nifty AC/DC plugs that charge cell phones and the like.  They are rated in various output voltages and can surely supply all the current your IC's will need.  Just cut off the DC plug end and strip the wire.  Boom, now you have DC voltage for your breadboard supply terminals or whatever.
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in your cmos settings...according to type...at startup of course..
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The cause is obvious!  your CMOS battery has ran out!!you should buy and replace the backup battery of your CMOS (Usually on mother board).Your computer can not keep CMOS data and also the built in real time clock of your mother board does not work any more.and the solution is just replacing the battery with a new one.
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There could be another probablitiy.\n\nThe CMOS battery could be weak and loosing power\n\nTry opening up your CPU and locating a Battery on the motherboard. ( round in shape and shiny silver )\n. If you can replace it.
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Sounds like your CMOS battery may have failed.\n\ntry replacing it.\n\n///
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The part number is on the top of the battery, so yeah... open 'er up and take a look.  You might need to just take the battery out and show it to them, but that'll clear your CMOS settings for the BIOS.  If that isn't a problem for you, go for it.
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That is exactly what happened to mine.  It was supposed to be a "memory - free" battery, but.....\nOnce it's fully charged, unplug it and let it drain completely before you charge it again.  I left mine plugged in and eventually it wouldn't hold a charge at all, and it was only two years old.
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http://www.howstuffworks.com/battery.htm
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removing the cmos battery and reinserting will solve the problem
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all mother boards have a watch battery on the board this is the main power source for the clock and cmos/bios. the battery is prolly dead,so just open up your computer and replace the battery. if you need help email me at thunderbolt423@yahoo.com or  stuntmaster84@gmail.com
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By Lance Ulanoff  \nImagine a world where all your portable devices can be charged and powered simply by placing them on a desktop. Chip manufacturer MobileWise has gone well beyond imagining such a world and this week unveiled "a conductive solution" that it believes can make it all possible.\n\nDuring a mid-day press conference in chilly New York City, MobileWise showed off a handful of functioning prototype powerbases and retrofitted mobile devices that all use the company's new MobileWise chipset and enable "Wire-Free" electric power. One chip, the tiny Adapter Controller, goes inside the mobile device and the other, the Contact Controller, gets built into the power base station. These power bases, which were shown in a wide variety of shapes, sizes and colors, are each covered in an array of gold-plated contacts. The retrofitted mobile devices also have a pair of contracts. With properly configured handheld devices, the bases can, according to company CEO Andy Goren, change any flat surface into a charging/power station.\n\n \n \n \nThe patent-pending technology behind the MobileWise is, on the surface, quite simple. The adapter chip inside the handheld device will, when placed on a base station, receive a very small electrical signal and message from the base controller chip that will power up the adapter chip. The base controller chip will sense for polarity. If there is none (say you place your hand on the base) then it does nothing. If it does find polarity and then a signal from the adapter chip, it will then read information about the voltage level necessary to run the mobile device and begin charging and powering it. Because of the array of contacts—from dozens to hundreds, depending on base size—there's no need to place the device in a special spot or position on the base. In fact, during the demonstration we saw the bases accept multiple devices, charging and powering them all at once.\n\nThe solution is not actually entirely "wire free", however. The base station is plugged into an AC adapter and can deliver up to 30V DC to an individual device. It's also, according to Goren, completely safe, and if any charge were delivered to a person, it would be at the level of a low-voltage battery, virtually imperceptible to humans and certainly not harmful, he added. The final base units will also, he said, be waterproof and protected from electrostatic charges. \n \n \n\n\nDespite calls for MobileWise to manufacture the bases, Goren said the company plans instead on delivering the chipsets to partners who will likely build the adapter chip and proper contacts into their products and OEM the power base manufacturing to another company. MobileWise showed a variety of colors and form factors for the bases.\n\n \n \n \nAcer has already partnered with MobileWise and, according to Goren, may ship a MobileWise-enabled notebook by Q1 of next year. But MobileWise has, it seems, even more intriguing plans on the horizon. The company is already in discussion with a couple of major office furniture manufacturers to build the power array bases and controller chips into furniture. Apparently, these bases are for more than just mobile devices. Properly-equipped televisions, lamps and more could be powered by the bases—Goren even had an HDTV that worked with one of the larger ones. Later next year, MobileWise expects to add data handshake capabilities to the chipset, allowing, once the signal is split, data delivery over the same contacts.\n\nWhile no shipping units currently exist, MobileWise said the adapter chips run roughly $1.25 a piece adding, it said, just a few dollars in manufacturing costs to mobile devices and the base stations could, in units of 100,000 cost roughly $11 to manufacturers. Goren said he expects a mid-sized base (roughly 12 by 18 inches) to sell for $160 street. Not every mobile device will have to be retrofitted, by the way. MobileWise says it expects to see a ha
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Never: memory does not depend on CMOS cell.\nIf your CMOS cell is gone, only CMOS data wil be reset to defaults.\nCheck your BIOS beeps: normally, it beeps only once. In another case, different BIOSes beep differently. IIRC, memory problem is two short beeps for almost every BIOS.
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Will the laptop run on battery power?  Li-Ion batteries can sometimes get out of sync meaning that the battery may have more or less charge remaining than the computer thinks.  If your computer will still run on battery power, I would charge it up all the way and then run it all the way down.  Repeat this three times and see if it fixes your problem.\n\nYou could also visit the downloads page for your laptop\nhttp://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-61506\nand see if you have the most up to date BIOS and system software.  You should have program in the start menu that can do this for you: Start -> All Programs ->IBM Update Connector or Start -> All Programs ->IBM->IBM Update Connector\n\nFinally if your computer won't run w/o being plugged in, you may want to remove the battery and make sure the contacts look ok.  If everything looks good and it still won't run on the battery, it is time for a new one.  I went to a "Batteries Plus" store and they were able to test the old one and sell me a new one for about $75.\n\nGood Luck!\n\nMike
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If you can get into windows or a comand prompt at least type in the following(it doesn't work on all bios's but it's worth a shot).\n\nDEBUG (a dash will appear)\nthe O is the letter o not a zero, Q quites the debug command. at the end of each line type enter, just icase you didn't know)\n\nhttp://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html\n----------------\nfor AMI/AWARD BIOS \nO 70 17 \nO 71 17 \nQ P\n\nFOR PHOENIX BIOS \nO 70 FF \nO 71 17 \nQ \n\nGENERIC\nInvalidates CMOS RAM.\nShould work on all AT motherboards\n(XT motherboards don't have CMOS) \nO 70 2E \nO 71 FF \nQ \n----------------\n\nThe site has other methods you could try.\n\nEDIT: this is to avoid hte CMOS BATTERY REMOVAL/CMOS CLEAR option.