Yes, if you consider having to repeatedly reset your CMOS a problem. I'm
guessing you didn't power down the computer, then reboot. Do it and you'll
see what I mean! If your machine is powered off for any length of time, it's
going to lose it's settings. The battery is essential to maintaining the
settings in memory.
Hopefully you'll be able to solder or somehow jerryrig some way to attach
battery to your board, otherwise you will eventually be in the market for a
new MOBO.
Sorry.

James A. Taylor



>From: SatPrem Reddy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] no bios battery
>Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 12:17:20 +0530
>
>Hi,
>     One of my friends accidentally broke the bar holding the
>bios battery down on my motherboard. When I booted my
>computer, there were a few error messages about bios
>configuration not being correct, but otherwise, it booted fine.
>Could there be any serious problems due to this? i've got a
>PIII 667MHz with an i815 motherboard.
>     Thanks in advance.
>-P.SatPrem Reddy
>
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