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    Cmos battery

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by Alienwarem11xr2, Dec 27, 2011.

  1. Alienwarem11xr2

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    i need help i recently repasted my thermal paste and put a bluetooth module on my i7 board and when i restarted my pc my time was off i went into bios and its not saving time i did remove the cmos battery what could be the problem? i put it back in sameway

    evreytime i set it up restart goes back to the same time witch is 1.04 am 4/22/2010 it really sux should i order a new one? and do u guys know where i could get one i have a m11xr2
     
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    un4tural Notebook Evangelist

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    are you sure you put it back in the correct way?

    This is a long shot, but you do click save&exit? lol

    Also, if it was cmos battery, i don't think it would reset, as the laptop's battery is still in, thus you would need to remove the charger + laptop battery for it to restart without the battery on the motherboard
     
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  3. Alienwarem11xr2

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    im pretty sure i save it man after i put the right settings i hit enter enter then f10 correct? it starts close to the time but after i restart it completely it goes back to 4/22/10 1 am and its only 1 way to put the cmos bat on :[ arghhh cant find one to order one just to get the doubt out i ran the diagnosis test only thing didn't pass was the hardrive evreything else was good so i dont know whats going on here kinda mad in a way i put evreything right http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/Alw_M11xR2/en/SM/coinbatt.htm#wp1179886
    found the thing right here and people have posted on google having same issues but never where they get this thing
     
    Alienwarem11xr2, Dec 27, 2011
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  4. un4tural

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    whats the BIOS version? try reflashing them, or updating...

    Just exit & save settings from the tab that always works for me... not F10 or w/e... after when it exits and reboots enter setup again and see if it saved properly...

    i can't think of anything else that could help sorry.
     
    un4tural, Dec 27, 2011
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    i have bios version ao4 i went to 03 still the same i went back put 04 same and i do save it restart go to bios saves but when i restart again it doesn't save its really bugging me google chrome doesn't work on out of date ughh!

    weird thing right now its set to a time but it stays on 12.45 am 12/21/2011 atleast its not 2010 anymore hmmmmmmmm mayby if i hadd 6 more days over in the bios it will be perfect date lol

    UPDATE: Its fixed i guess i needed to leave it on for a while to recharge it its fixed now thank god i thought my motherboard was done! ughhhhhh u guys have a cheap hardrive?
     
    Alienwarem11xr2, Dec 27, 2011
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