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Suzie

My pc needs a new battery can you tell me please if I put
a new one in will this take me back to the factory
settings when I restart proberly a silly question but
someone said it might.

Thankyou
 
If your battery is totally dead, you may already be at "system defaults".

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
 
ASSUME you mean the little coin sized battery?

I don't know what you mean by "back to factory settings",
but the answer is actually yes, and no.
NO, it won't make any changes to anything on your hard
drive or any programs you've installed or files you've
created or any changes you made.
YES, in the sense that, IFF you have made changes to what
is variously known as CMOS RAM. System Ram, etc., the
settings you access by F2, CTRL-ESC, whatever, during
bootup, it depends on the brand computer you have, you will
lose THOSE system settings, IFF you have changed them, and
they will simply go back to "default", usually, not always,
the settings the computer was delivered with.
Therefore, take the advice to go into your system
settings and write down what each one is, so if you need
to, you can put them back. Be sure to check each menu, and
do not change anything when you're there. Use ESC to back
your way out of the menues until you can press the button
that says "exit without saving changes".
IFF no one, not even you, has ever changed anything in
the system settings, or you don't know, you still want to
write them down, just in case the factory made changes to
them before sending you the computer.

Come on back if you need more help. Lots of other helpful
people here.

Pop
 
Pop said:
ASSUME you mean the little coin sized battery?

I don't know what you mean by "back to factory settings",
but the answer is actually yes, and no.
NO, it won't make any changes to anything on your hard
drive or any programs you've installed or files you've
created or any changes you made.
YES, in the sense that, IFF you have made changes to what
is variously known as CMOS RAM. System Ram, etc., the
settings you access by F2, CTRL-ESC, whatever, during
bootup, it depends on the brand computer you have, you will
lose THOSE system settings, IFF you have changed them, and
they will simply go back to "default", usually, not always,
the settings the computer was delivered with.
Therefore, take the advice to go into your system
settings and write down what each one is, so if you need
to, you can put them back. Be sure to check each menu, and
do not change anything when you're there. Use ESC to back
your way out of the menues until you can press the button
that says "exit without saving changes".
IFF no one, not even you, has ever changed anything in
the system settings, or you don't know, you still want to
write them down, just in case the factory made changes to
them before sending you the computer.

Come on back if you need more help. Lots of other helpful
people here.

Pop
Click to expand...

This strikes me as odd. I have a P200 that's still using the original
battery - do batteries really have a shorter life these days? If the system
requires a new battery, surely it's too old to be running XP?
 
Supposedly the batteries have a two to three year life. I bought this
machine in late '98 and just replaced the battery last year. I gave my old
machine that came with Windows 3.11 and updated to Windows 95 to my folks.
I replaced that battery last year also. I had to unsolder it and solder it
back in. And that was after actually _finding_ a battery.

Define old. ;-)
 
Susie,

I've twice replaced BIOS batteries and didn't loose
any settings either time. I don't know if you'll have the
same results though. If you do replace the battery, I
would suggest you do it quickly; don't leave the board
without power longer than necessary.

Good luck,
Milt
 
Your computer is most likely running factory default settings anyway, unless
you have changed them..
 
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