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Mark
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 Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:37 am Post subject: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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I have a K7S5A V1.0 m/board which has served me well but in the last
couple of weeks it has twice lost its BIOS settings when starting the
PC. I get the message: "CMOS settings wrong - CMOS memory size wrong"
and I have to press F1 to run bios setup. I was thinking it might be a
low battery but I am not getting any low battery warnings. Should I
change the battery anyway or could it be something else?
Thanks |
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Tod
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 4:05 pm Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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Change the battery anyway.
"Mark" <here@invalidaddress.com> wrote in message
news:2ncbpbFvhk88U1@uni-berlin.de...
| Quote: | I have a K7S5A V1.0 m/board which has served me well but in the last
couple of weeks it has twice lost its BIOS settings when starting the
PC. I get the message: "CMOS settings wrong - CMOS memory size wrong"
and I have to press F1 to run bios setup. I was thinking it might be a
low battery but I am not getting any low battery warnings. Should I
change the battery anyway or could it be something else?
Thanks
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Ken
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| Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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Mark wrote:
| Quote: | I have a K7S5A V1.0 m/board which has served me well but in the last
couple of weeks it has twice lost its BIOS settings when starting the
PC. I get the message: "CMOS settings wrong - CMOS memory size wrong"
and I have to press F1 to run bios setup. I was thinking it might be a
low battery but I am not getting any low battery warnings. Should I
change the battery anyway or could it be something else?
Thanks
Changing the battery is a good first step, but I would also watch the |
RAM count. You could have a situation where not all the RAM is detected
during POST due to failing RAM. Just something to consider. |
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Mark
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 5:07 am Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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Thanks for the replies, I will change the battery first and see what
that does.
Cheers |
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Smoker
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 6:04 am Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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"Mark" <here@invalidaddress.com> wrote in message
news:2ncbpbFvhk88U1@uni-berlin.de...
| Quote: | I have a K7S5A V1.0 m/board which has served me well but in the last
couple of weeks it has twice lost its BIOS settings when starting the
PC. I get the message: "CMOS settings wrong - CMOS memory size wrong"
and I have to press F1 to run bios setup. I was thinking it might be a
low battery but I am not getting any low battery warnings. Should I
change the battery anyway or could it be something else?
Thanks
The lost CMOS settings is a very old common problem which ECS never |
addressed. Usually it's only a temporary problem that should go away on it's
own. There is no known fix for it.
As advised, change your CMOS battery anyhow - $3 for a good one at Radio
Shack. ECS used KTS batteries and they are crap. |
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bernie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 9:05 am Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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Smoker wrote:
| Quote: | "Mark" <here@invalidaddress.com> wrote in message
news:2ncbpbFvhk88U1@uni-berlin.de...
I have a K7S5A V1.0 m/board which has served me well but in the last
couple of weeks it has twice lost its BIOS settings when starting the
PC. I get the message: "CMOS settings wrong - CMOS memory size wrong"
and I have to press F1 to run bios setup. I was thinking it might be a
low battery but I am not getting any low battery warnings. Should I
change the battery anyway or could it be something else?
Thanks
The lost CMOS settings is a very old common problem which ECS never
addressed. Usually it's only a temporary problem that should go away on it's
own. There is no known fix for it.
As advised, change your CMOS battery anyhow - $3 for a good one at Radio
Shack. ECS used KTS batteries and they are crap.
I have the same problen in fact I posted the same problem and tried all |
the response I got, guess what none did work ( atleast on my case) what
I did?, I,m using 2x256 sdram at that time with amd 1.4 g, set bios to
133/133 hehehe crash all the time set bios to 100fsb and 133 mem hehehe
works, but still crash once in a while. come to find out one my memory
is not stable (still usable)> got me a xp2200 and use both memory good
and guess what once or twice a month crash not bad compare what it was
before, stuck an ati card, 96ooxt, guess what, no more crash no cmo
error nothing. I dont know why but it works for me. Still using 2x256
sdram on it
just to say, I bough an MSI board for friend use sdram, I use the one i
have wont work crash cant even install xp with both memory use just
one(the good one it works after instalation put both memory crash,put
back ecs board work flawlessly, i just cant get it woek good with nvidia
card it crash, ati hehehhe you name it, it will play it no crash. its
kinda picky tleast my does |
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Buffalo
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| Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2004 7:04 am Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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"bernie" <> I have the same problen in fact I posted the same problem
and tried all
| Quote: | the response I got, guess what none did work ( atleast on my case)
what
I did?, I,m using 2x256 sdram at that time with amd 1.4 g, set bios
to
133/133 hehehe crash all the time set bios to 100fsb and 133 mem
hehehe
works, but still crash once in a while. come to find out one my
memory
is not stable (still usable)> got me a xp2200 and use both memory
good
and guess what once or twice a month crash not bad compare what it
was
before, stuck an ati card, 96ooxt, guess what, no more crash no cmo
error nothing. I dont know why but it works for me. Still using
2x256
sdram on it
just to say, I bough an MSI board for friend use sdram, I use the
one i
have wont work crash cant even install xp with both memory use just
one(the good one it works after instalation put both memory
crash,put
back ecs board work flawlessly, i just cant get it woek good with
nvidia
card it crash, ati hehehhe you name it, it will play it no crash.
its
kinda picky tleast my does
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For the K7S5a, try the HoneyX Bios and set the cpu and ram speed to
138MHz instead of 133MHz.
Benefits? Faster cpu speed, a slight increase in performance, and more
stability.
It can really help with stability problems when using SDRam on that
MB.
How's that 9600XT working for you? |
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BigRed1uk
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 7:04 pm Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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| I have 2 of these boards that run very well but keep loosing the BIOS settings. After changing the batteries and various flashes with of all the updates on ECS web site they still regualy loose settings. ECS customer services are about as usefull as a handbrake on a canoe and seem to have just taken the attitude bollocks to it and given up trying to fix the problem. If anyone has any suggestions of how to cure this I would be most gratefull. |
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Ski
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| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 8:05 pm Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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| Quote: | I have 2 of these boards that run very well but keep loosing the BIOS
settings. After changing the batteries and various flashes with of all the
updates on ECS web site they still regualy loose settings. ECS customer
services are about as usefull as a handbrake on a canoe and seem to have just
taken the attitude bollocks to it and given up trying to fix the problem. If
anyone has any suggestions of how to cure this I would be most gratefull.
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Throw ECS board away, replace with MSI.
Only way *I'VE* fixed it
The one ECS diehard I have left buys CMOS batteries two at a time, they die in
6 months or less.
Ski
"The only way to find out how far is too far...
is to go there"
(remove spleen to e-mail) |
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Buffalo
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| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:35 am Post subject: Re: Losing CMOS BIOS settings. |
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"Ski" <wrenchski@aol.comspleen> wrote in message
news:20040809154017.15071.00001382@mb-m02.aol.com...
| Quote: | I have 2 of these boards that run very well but keep loosing the
BIOS
settings. After changing the batteries and various flashes with of
all the
updates on ECS web site they still regualy loose settings. ECS
customer
services are about as usefull as a handbrake on a canoe and seem to
have just
taken the attitude bollocks to it and given up trying to fix the
problem. If
anyone has any suggestions of how to cure this I would be most
gratefull.
Throw ECS board away, replace with MSI.
Only way *I'VE* fixed it
The one ECS diehard I have left buys CMOS batteries two at a time,
they die in
6 months or less.
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I have only replaced my battery once, on my K7S5a rev 3.1 MB, and that
was only to help eliminate the BIOS loss culprit.
It still losses it's BIOS settings occasionally. Sometimes two days in
a row (I shut it down several times a day) and then again maybe not
for a month. I have all the settings down 'pat' now. 
Other than that, it works great.
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Ski
"The only way to find out how far is too far...
is to go there"
(remove spleen to e-mail) |
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