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What are the signs of the clock battery going dead?
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Clock battery going dead?
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Depening on what type of clock it is. Digital clocks just go dead. The clocks with the hour/minutes and seconds hand sweepers are a little odd.
Once the battery starts to weaken the seconds hand will either get stuck and it'll look like it wants to move forward, or the time will either advance a few minutes or slow down.
Once the battery starts to weaken the seconds hand will either get stuck and it'll look like it wants to move forward, or the time will either advance a few minutes or slow down.
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Let me be more exact, the battery on the Motherboard. Sorry I was not more specific. 
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Ahhh, the cmos battery. It's going dead when the bios doesn't save your settings.
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And when the clock keeps reseting itself. My advice is to just go ahead and change it out now if its on its way out. Beisdes the batters are dirt cheap. Just go buy radio shack and pick up a setNebulous said:Ahhh, the cmos battery. It's going dead when the bios doesn't save your settings.
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Are they all the same size? I am checking this out for a friend. When they power the system down, the computer continues to beep after the system has shut down. The clock does not stay on the correct time.
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Yes all mobo batteries *should* be the same size. I belive the proper batter is CR120? Dont take my word for it tho. Check the physical battery.DuckDodgers said:
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Sentential said:
They go by different thicknesses
CR2025 is thin
CR2032 is the universal size which is a tad thicker
*edit* Forgot to mention the voltage is 3V
