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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Mark wrote:
> 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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"bernie" <> 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

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?