Bios reset upon starting?

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Rydawg5143

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So got my new board in the other day and about every 2 or 3 restarts the computer will do this.
1. power on, fans running etc for like 2-3 secs
2. turns off
3. tuns on and defaults my bios to factory settings.

I'm lost, my OC is stable for 24 hou orthos. What could this be ?
 
I'd guess bad battery or dirty battery contacts (or an internal problem with same). Test battery, clean the contacts; also check to make sure the BIOS reset jumper isn't shorting out on something above or below the mainboard. It wouldn't hurt to make sure the BIOS chip is securely inserted in it's socket (if it is a socketed BIOS chip).
 
Yeah, I just had this same problem with my Living Room PC yesterday.

Most likely, your CMOS back-up battery is dying. A fresh "3-volt" battery should produce about 3.25 volts. Depending on the motherboard and chipset, a "dead" battery will produce 3.0 volts or less.

1. Remove old battery
2. Buy new battery.
3. Follow Mobo manual directions on how to clear out all BIOS settings.
4. Install new battery.
5. Post the machine and go set up all your BIOS settings.
 
If your board is a giga-byte it will do little restarts like that. If you have flashed the bios, and its not taking you have go into the bios after you update it and select the load maximized defaults(somthing like that) I had the same problem, so I read the manual(go figure!) and that was all I was missing, after I did that it restarted fine and showed the newer bios had been installed.
 
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