Hi all, my HP Compaq Presario tower PC has a problem when starting, it keeps asking to reset the clock, anyone know if it is the CMOS battery causing the problem, the keyboard and mouse are also switching off before booting to GRUB and sometimes it works okay!. When switching on the PC, it goes in…

Hi all, just to report that the problem is solved and that it was indeed the battery which was causing the initial problem!. :smiley: I removed AVG Free on both my PC’s and I am just using Windows Defender on Win 10 as I am also not sure that the app was doing me any favours!. Thanks for your hel…

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CMOS battery dead?

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Dave_Barnes 8 December 2016 04:07 4

If the PC is a few years old it (or the power supply) may have the bloated capacitor disease.

What model and/or motherboard?