Simviation Forum - CMOS Battery

Aug 6^th, 2004 at 1:27pm

Iroquois Offline
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I've got an old Zida Tomatoboard 6MLX Pentium II mobo I'm trying to revive.

When I try to boot it, it beeps 10 times. I found a beep translator for AMI BIOS chips. It states that 10 beeps means there is a "CMOS checksum error. Something on the motherboard is causing an error when trying to interact with the CMOS."

Do you think a dead CMOS battery could be causing this? I took the old one out and noticed it was dead.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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Reply #1 - Aug 6^th, 2004 at 3:11pm

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As its dead, replace it. It just gives your BIOS a bad case of amnesia.
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Reply #2 - Aug 6^th, 2004 at 5:06pm

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I forgot to mention it isn't booting at all. It just beeps at me.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

&&The Rig: &&AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live Platinum, 16xDVD, 16x10x40x CDRW, 40/60gb 7200rpm HDD, 325w Power, Windows XP Home SP1, Directx 9.0c with 66.81 Beta gfx drivers

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Reply #3 - Aug 6^th, 2004 at 10:41pm

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lol, sounds like fun! Wink

Hope you figure it out..

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Reply #4 - Aug 9^th, 2004 at 3:54pm

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Got it fixed. It was the Geforce 2 that was causing the problem. I found my old Trident VGA card and it works like a charm.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

&&The Rig: &&AMD Athlon XP2000+ Palomino, ECS K7S5A 3.1, 1GB PC2700 DDR, Geforce FX5200 128mb, SB Live Platinum, 16xDVD, 16x10x40x CDRW, 40/60gb 7200rpm HDD, 325w Power, Windows XP Home SP1, Directx 9.0c with 66.81 Beta gfx drivers

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