[SOLVED] CMOS issue

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plodr

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For about a month I was getting the press F1 or F2 on my husband's Dell Optiplex 745 running a 32 bit version of Windows 7 Pro.
Because of the lockdown, it took me awhile to get to Office Max/Depot and get a new CMOS battery. The battery said fresh through 2029. I installed it and updated the date through the BIOS. It made no difference. I still see the same press F1 or F2 message.

This morning, I fired up Palemoon and kept getting insecure connection which told me nothing. I tried FF and finally got a hint as to what was wrong. It told me the time was wrong. That made sense because the power was off for 3 hours the other evening and the BIOS reverted back to 2007 again. Other than buying an UPS for that computer, I'll just have to remember to reset the date and time anytime we lose power.

Clearly a new CMOS battery was not the solution. I did read that a fresh battery helps in 99% of the cases. I guess we are in the other 1%.

Is there anything else I should try?
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We can mark this solved. It all boils down to user error!
I'm letting this thread stand so others aren't as stupid as me.

I got out my tester and started testing some old CR2032 batteries. I found one that tested over 3V so I intended to try that battery.
I opened up the computer, got out the battery I put in last week. Then the aha moment hit!

There is a sticker on the negative side indicating the battery is a choking hazard.

Remove the sticker!
I then went into set up again and we now have a working computer.
 
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So am I! This was the first button battery I bought that had a sticker on it. Who knew. My husband said, "don't forget I was there too helping and I thought the sticker was part of the battery."
If I had tested the battery before I put it in, and it came up 0, I'd have been suspicious.
 
plodr said:
For about a month I was getting the press F1 or F2 on my husband's Dell Optiplex 745 running a 32 bit version of Windows 7 Pro.
Because of the lockdown, it took me awhile to get to Office Max/Depot and get a new CMOS battery. The battery said fresh through 2029. I installed it and updated the date through the BIOS. It made no difference. I still see the same press F1 or F2 message.

This morning, I fired up Palemoon and kept getting insecure connection which told me nothing. I tried FF and finally got a hint as to what was wrong. It told me the time was wrong. That made sense because the power was off for 3 hours the other evening and the BIOS reverted back to 2007 again. Other than buying an UPS for that computer, I'll just have to remember to reset the date and time anytime we lose power.

Clearly a new CMOS battery was not the solution. I did read that a fresh battery helps in 99% of the cases. I guess we are in the other 1%.

Is there anything else I should try?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
We can mark this solved. It all boils down to user error!
I'm letting this thread stand so others aren't as stupid as me.

I got out my tester and started testing some old CR2032 batteries. I found one that tested over 3V so I intended to try that battery.
I opened up the computer, got out the battery I put in last week. Then the aha moment hit!

There is a sticker on the negative side indicating the battery is a choking hazard.

Remove the sticker!
I then went into set up again and we now have a working computer.
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i have forgotten to take the sticker off a battery that keeps the memory for one of are injection molding machines come in after weekend lost the program then it dawned on me to check the battery i put in. yep forgot to take sticker off. took it off reloaded program then all good
 

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