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Originally Posted by Stephen W.
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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By coincidence I just ordered some CR2032s to replace my Buick FOB battery from Amazon on Monday lol.
I remember when we (work peeps) realized the CMOS batteries were starting to go bad in the systems we supplied. We had to go through all of the computer/networking/communications bits (like 30+ per system) and figure out what if any batteries it had, what the expected life was, what the symptoms and failure propagation effects were and develop R&R procedures, then build that all into the support process. At first we celebrated any time we found an actual supercap. Then we realized those were worse because the systems might be in storage for months/years and we had to write reinitialization procedures for them...
Sorry, my inner humfrz is showing.