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So I fired up my gaming system the other day and got a "CPU Fan Error" message. I haven't touched my system in years so what's up with this? I thought.
I followed the instructions to hit F1 and went into the BIOS. I then hit F7 to go to the simplified menu and there I saw a graphic showing all the fans turning with their indicated RPM. Both the main and axu. CPU fans were not moving. I clicked on "Manual Fan Settings" and then set them to high. Back to the F7 screen and the CPU Fan was now spinning at about 750 RPM's
I hit F10 to save and exit and finished the boot. However, after boot-up I was missing many of my toolbar icons. So, I did a soft boot, (Restart) and everything seemed to work except I couldn't log into anything, view pages or anything. I kept getting a Date/time code error. I checked and sure enough the clock said 11:00 am Jan. 01, 2006. Reset the clock via the internet and everything worked for the rest of the day.
Next day, same thing. So that's when I got it, my CMOS battery must be dead. That meant undoing all the cables and digging out the case from under the desk. Then I learned that I had to disassemble part of the system to get at the stupid battery located under the GTX 980 graphics card. A card that is held in by three hard to reach screws and locked into the slot by a plastic release leaver that's near impossible to get at.
I had to drive 35klm's into the big city to get a CR2032 only to find out that they come in a six pack. This last one had been going for six years so who knows if I'll ever need another. Good thing they were only 10 bucks.
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