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Problem with the CMOS motherboard battery.
My old XP system (from 2006) was having booting problems, with a
halting slow and freezing startup. I turned off the machine and removed the cmos motherboard battery (CR2032) and found a voltage reading of 1.5V which is half the nominal value. I bought a new one, and all was mended, with a rapid startup and even a faster screen shortcuts loading. I need to know: 1/ Do I have to make any alterations in the setup &/or cmos menus? 2/ Why is there no warning of a failing cmos battery? And is there such a warning for my new Windows7 system? Peter |
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Problem with the CMOS motherboard battery.
On 7/22/2011 9:34 PM, Peter Jason wrote:
My old XP system (from 2006) was having booting problems, with a halting slow and freezing startup. I turned off the machine and removed the cmos motherboard battery (CR2032) and found a voltage reading of 1.5V which is half the nominal value. I bought a new one, and all was mended, with a rapid startup and even a faster screen shortcuts loading. I need to know: 1/ Do I have to make any alterations in the setup &/or cmos menus? 2/ Why is there no warning of a failing cmos battery? And is there such a warning for my new Windows7 system? Peter 1. Only if you made changes from the default originally. 2. I'm not aware of any machine/motherboard/operating system that has such. That battery is pretty much isolated from the rest of the motherboard parts. |
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Problem with the CMOS motherboard battery.
Peter Jason wrote:
My old XP system (from 2006) was having booting problems, with a halting slow and freezing startup. I turned off the machine and removed the cmos motherboard battery (CR2032) and found a voltage reading of 1.5V which is half the nominal value. I bought a new one, and all was mended, with a rapid startup and even a faster screen shortcuts loading. I need to know: 1/ Do I have to make any alterations in the setup &/or cmos menus? 2/ Why is there no warning of a failing cmos battery? And is there such a warning for my new Windows7 system? Peter 1) If you needed to make custom BIOS settings at some point, you'd need to reload those. Usually, it would be something along the lines of either boot order, or disk controller operating mode. If you can boot the machine, chances are it's all right as is. Sample disk controller operating modes are IDE (Enhanced or Compatible), AHCI, or RAID. IDE works with most OSes (within reason), while the others require some driver work. Modern laptops and desktops come set to AHCI by default (since Vista/Win7 support AHCI out of the box). 2) None of my machines here, warn about the battery. I've seen SuperI/O chips with a VBAT input or the like, but the capabilities of SuperI/O chips, seldom seem to match what is displayed in the BIOS hardware monitor (or a Windows application like SpeedFan/MBM5/Asus Probe etc). I just wait for mine to fail, as it's too much trouble to be checking them all the time. They can be checked with a multimeter, while the battery is sitting in the socket. Use a low DC voltage readout range on the multimeter (measuring 3V on say the 20VDC range). Connect the multimeter black lead, to a grounded screw in the I/O plate area on the back of the computer. Then probe the top surface of the battery with the red lead. At around 2.7V or so, the battery may be down to the last 10% of its life. At 2.3V, the real time clock (RTC) and CMOS cells, as just about to wink out and lose settings or stop telling the time. The chipset is rated for 2.0V operation, but a Schottky diode in the path, accounts for 0.3V or so more voltage drop, raising the acceptance level to 2.3V or so. The distance from 2.7V to 2.3V on the battery, is about 10% of its operating life. HTH, Paul |
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Problem with the CMOS motherboard battery.
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:45:33 -0400, Paul wrote:
Peter Jason wrote: My old XP system (from 2006) was having booting problems, with a halting slow and freezing startup. I turned off the machine and removed the cmos motherboard battery (CR2032) and found a voltage reading of 1.5V which is half the nominal value. I bought a new one, and all was mended, with a rapid startup and even a faster screen shortcuts loading. I need to know: 1/ Do I have to make any alterations in the setup &/or cmos menus? 2/ Why is there no warning of a failing cmos battery? And is there such a warning for my new Windows7 system? Peter 1) If you needed to make custom BIOS settings at some point, you'd need to reload those. Usually, it would be something along the lines of either boot order, or disk controller operating mode. If you can boot the machine, chances are it's all right as is. Sample disk controller operating modes are IDE (Enhanced or Compatible), AHCI, or RAID. IDE works with most OSes (within reason), while the others require some driver work. Modern laptops and desktops come set to AHCI by default (since Vista/Win7 support AHCI out of the box). 2) None of my machines here, warn about the battery. I've seen SuperI/O chips with a VBAT input or the like, but the capabilities of SuperI/O chips, seldom seem to match what is displayed in the BIOS hardware monitor (or a Windows application like SpeedFan/MBM5/Asus Probe etc). I just wait for mine to fail, as it's too much trouble to be checking them all the time. They can be checked with a multimeter, while the battery is sitting in the socket. Use a low DC voltage readout range on the multimeter (measuring 3V on say the 20VDC range). Connect the multimeter black lead, to a grounded screw in the I/O plate area on the back of the computer. Then probe the top surface of the battery with the red lead. At around 2.7V or so, the battery may be down to the last 10% of its life. At 2.3V, the real time clock (RTC) and CMOS cells, as just about to wink out and lose settings or stop telling the time. The chipset is rated for 2.0V operation, but a Schottky diode in the path, accounts for 0.3V or so more voltage drop, raising the acceptance level to 2.3V or so. The distance from 2.7V to 2.3V on the battery, is about 10% of its operating life. HTH, Paul Thanks, I guess this will need to be replaced every 2 years. They only cost $5 |
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Problem with the CMOS motherboard battery.
Peter Jason wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 22:45:33 -0400, Paul wrote: Peter Jason wrote: My old XP system (from 2006) was having booting problems, with a halting slow and freezing startup. I turned off the machine and removed the cmos motherboard battery (CR2032) and found a voltage reading of 1.5V which is half the nominal value. I bought a new one, and all was mended, with a rapid startup and even a faster screen shortcuts loading. I need to know: 1/ Do I have to make any alterations in the setup &/or cmos menus? 2/ Why is there no warning of a failing cmos battery? And is there such a warning for my new Windows7 system? Peter 1) If you needed to make custom BIOS settings at some point, you'd need to reload those. Usually, it would be something along the lines of either boot order, or disk controller operating mode. If you can boot the machine, chances are it's all right as is. Sample disk controller operating modes are IDE (Enhanced or Compatible), AHCI, or RAID. IDE works with most OSes (within reason), while the others require some driver work. Modern laptops and desktops come set to AHCI by default (since Vista/Win7 support AHCI out of the box). 2) None of my machines here, warn about the battery. I've seen SuperI/O chips with a VBAT input or the like, but the capabilities of SuperI/O chips, seldom seem to match what is displayed in the BIOS hardware monitor (or a Windows application like SpeedFan/MBM5/Asus Probe etc). I just wait for mine to fail, as it's too much trouble to be checking them all the time. They can be checked with a multimeter, while the battery is sitting in the socket. Use a low DC voltage readout range on the multimeter (measuring 3V on say the 20VDC range). Connect the multimeter black lead, to a grounded screw in the I/O plate area on the back of the computer. Then probe the top surface of the battery with the red lead. At around 2.7V or so, the battery may be down to the last 10% of its life. At 2.3V, the real time clock (RTC) and CMOS cells, as just about to wink out and lose settings or stop telling the time. The chipset is rated for 2.0V operation, but a Schottky diode in the path, accounts for 0.3V or so more voltage drop, raising the acceptance level to 2.3V or so. The distance from 2.7V to 2.3V on the battery, is about 10% of its operating life. HTH, Paul Thanks, I guess this will need to be replaced every 2 years. They only cost $5 The current draw is around 10 microamps. It could vary, from one chipset to the next, especially as things like leakage currents vary with geometry. Based on the 10 microamp number, a CR2032 lasts around 2.5 to 3 years, when the computer is left unplugged during that time. If you keep the computer powered (run it in sleep mode, otherwise known as "suspend to RAM" mode), the battery will last for as long as its shelf life, which could be ten years. But if you unplug the PC and store it in the garage, the battery lasts 2.5 to 3 years, as then the CR2032 is the only source of power for the CMOS/RTC. In something like "suspend to RAM" mode, the +5VSB on the ATX supply is still running, and it powers the CMOS/RTC and zero current flows from the battery. That's why the battery lasts for ten years. Paul |
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