Bios Problems

Tinto

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Now whenever my computer freezes, the system won't post afterwards, I have to short out the CMOS jumpers to get it posting again, then I have to reset all of the bios settings.

Is this a sign of the motherboard bad, or just the CMOS battery is going bad?
 

Tinto

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CPU yes, ram no. The computer did encounter freezes frequently before whether overclocked or not, which is probably caused by bad software. However, all I needed to do is to restart the thing. but now I have to reset the CMOS for it to post again. I did overclock the FSB by 50 percent, but OCCT stress tested the processor AND ram as stable for 8 hours (that's how long the test was set to). The temperatures are all good, cpu is 25 idle 42 load.