DFI Lanparty NF2 BIOS Problem?

**Buzioid** · August 11th, 2003, 05:23 PM

Every time there is a power outtage I can't start my computer, and end up resetting my BIOS and all the settings in there, and it is a REAL HASSLE, does anyone know what could cause this and how to fix it?

**Xtreeme** · August 12th, 2003, 04:50 PM

Yep. The cmos battery is dead. Thats why whne ac power gone you loose your settings. Pull the old one out-go to wal-mart and get another. OR radio-shack whatever is close that sells watch batts. Th ebasically gave ya a mobo with a dead batt in it. Nice. (DONT like DFI)

**Christian-Comp** · August 12th, 2003, 05:00 PM

Good Call!

**Buzioid** · August 12th, 2003, 05:13 PM

That can't be the problem, I have taken my power cord out of the computer and waited for the mobo light to turn off and it was like this all night. The computer still has all of its BIOS settings. The power went out only for 2 seconds when it did.

**Xtreeme** · August 14th, 2003, 04:25 PM

Well guy all I can tell ya is a power loss- and unplugging the power are the same. Unless your talking brown out-but you said power loss. AND only TWO ways you can loose settings. A battery dead or weak. B you set the cmos jumper to CLR in which it wont boot again till at NRML. WHich you didnt do so it leaves the bios batt. Less ya think you got a bunk mobo?

**Xtreeme** · August 14th, 2003, 04:33 PM

One more thought here. My k7s5a had this happen. Make SURE the tangs for batt. are pressing tightly agains the batt. If not it can loose contact intermintently and loose settings yet appear to be o.k. 90% of the time. Just bend them (tangs) out a little more for a better contact with batt. Its free to try. Other than that the best bet is to change batt. and just see what happens. Beyond that- you got me. Cause the only way you loose settings is to loose bios power. Bios is part static. The part that has settings. it needs power as its static mem or it dumps all of it. Just like what is in system mem is dumped upon reboot-same thing. The rest of bios code stays as its hard programed into chip and not static therefore. Thats the part we "FLASH".

Easy $50 fix is to get a UPS 30minute unit. Then when power goes out ya can shutdown properly and not loose anything. I myself loose power here alot (dang pp&l sucks). I have yet to loose settings or have a no boot condition after power outtages.

**DoctorReno** · August 14th, 2003, 04:52 PM

I gotta agree on the battery being the culpret. I've seen weak batteries sometimes lose the settings and sometimes not... intermittently.
Take your existing battery along and have them put it on the tester first if you want to know how good it is. If it's marginal change it.
At Wallmart a new one will run you a dollar something. Cheap headache remedy IMO.