ECS K7S5A lil question about CMOS

[MeloManiac]

I have had some troubles with this board, and I want to find out if it's faulty. So I have another lilttle question for any owners outthere. When you have flashed the BIOS and/or cleared the CMOS, do you get a 'CMOS Battery Low' error followed up by the usual 'CMOS xxxx - enter SETUP'. I mean is this battery message supposed to appear or is something wrong here?

TIA!

 

[stevewm]

I seen this message the first time I booted the board up. Never showed up again after I had configured the BIOS and saved the changes. It show up again after flashed it. Saving the settings fixed it again. My friends k7s5a also did the same thing, so I assume its normal for this board.

 

[Wayward]

I get an error like this or similar to it every time I flash the bios. Just enter setup, set the bios where you want it and it's fine.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

<< I get an error like this or similar to it every time I flash the bios. Just enter setup, set the bios where you want it and it's fine. >>

 

[bowie71]

me too.. and it's okay

 

[Buz2b]

The only thing I would add is that if this message continues to appear then replace the CMOS battery. In all cases I've seen that have not been fixed by simply reconfiguring the BIOS settings and saving the changes, changing the battery has done the trick (very few instances but there was some "faulty" batteries being reported before).