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Can a flat CMOS battery slow your system down?
It will be a few days before I can get a new one in, and unless it's
something else causing it, my PC seems to be lagging a lot since I started getting the Warning! System battery voltage is too low warning. I thought it would just be a risk for your BIOS settings getting lost, but a) can this have an effect on my system when booted to Windows and b) what happens if the battery goes completely dead - will it still boot, and just use the bIOS defaults? |
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Can a flat CMOS battery slow your system down?
"Lee Harris" wrote in message ... It will be a few days before I can get a new one in, and unless it's something else causing it, my PC seems to be lagging a lot since I started getting the Warning! System battery voltage is too low warning. I thought it would just be a risk for your BIOS settings getting lost, but a dead battery would not slow your system down "per se" but if all settings were lost and your bios went back to defaults... that could slow your system down. |
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Can a flat CMOS battery slow your system down?
"philo" wrote in message news "Lee Harris" wrote in message ... It will be a few days before I can get a new one in, and unless it's something else causing it, my PC seems to be lagging a lot since I started getting the Warning! System battery voltage is too low warning. I thought it would just be a risk for your BIOS settings getting lost, but a dead battery would not slow your system down "per se" but if all settings were lost and your bios went back to defaults... that could slow your system down. thanks, but presumably I'd know about that because the system time would be wrong etc? |
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Can a flat CMOS battery slow your system down?
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a dead battery would not slow your system down "per se" but if all settings were lost and your bios went back to defaults... that could slow your system down. thanks, but presumably I'd know about that because the system time would be wrong etc? good point...your time and date would probably have been reset... so why not check your settings in the bios and see what happened. i know i've reset *some* of my bios settings due to static electricity... such as shuffling across the carpet in winter and plugging a device into a USB port |
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Can a flat CMOS battery slow your system down?
Lee Harriswrote:
It will be a few days before I can get a new one in, and unless it's something else causing it, my PC seems to be lagging a lot since I started getting the Warning! System battery voltage is too low warning. I thought it would just be a risk for your BIOS settings getting lost, but a) can this have an effect on my system when booted to Windows and b) what happens if the battery goes completely dead - will it still boot, and just use the bIOS defaults? You need to change it out as soon as possible. I had one go dead in the middle of a boot and it wound up a real mess. Normally, it just sets your bios to default and you have to reset your clock. But, I wouldn't want to take that chance. Cheers |
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Can a flat CMOS battery slow your system down?
In message "Lee Harris"
wrote: "philo" wrote in message news "Lee Harris" wrote in message ... It will be a few days before I can get a new one in, and unless it's something else causing it, my PC seems to be lagging a lot since I started getting the Warning! System battery voltage is too low warning. I thought it would just be a risk for your BIOS settings getting lost, but a dead battery would not slow your system down "per se" but if all settings were lost and your bios went back to defaults... that could slow your system down. thanks, but presumably I'd know about that because the system time would be wrong etc? Probably, although it's possible that your OS corrects this before you notice. -- Warning Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. |
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