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    BIOS settings becoming volatile

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Starfox, Mar 31, 2009.

  1. Starfox

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    Recently my V1S has been losing bios settings if the battery gets low (not cutoff-low, it has time to hibernate and shut down cleanly). It's as if the cmos battery is dying, and this machine is 1 year old. Any ideas?
     
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    I think you hit it on the head, bios battery.
     
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    Well what can I do about this? It's only one year old!
     
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    *shameless bump*
    Is there anyway I can get around this without having to send my laptop in for a repair? I started grad school in a different state, and this is my only handy PC at the moment :(
     
    Starfox, Apr 2, 2009
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    you can probably put the new battery in yourself but getting to it may be easy/hard depending on your model, and it may require breaking a warrenty sea lto get too.
     
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    Does anyone have the disassembly guide for the V1S handy?

    Also, shouldn't this happen after like 4 or 5 years? only had mine for 13 months now..
     
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    Just checked, this now happens with any reboot. So each and every time I reboot I have to at least re-set my watch, which is a pain in the . Any help I'd get is appreciated.
     
    Starfox, Apr 2, 2009
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