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I've got an old MSI Z97 mobo. Not surprised the CMOS battery died, but I replaced it and it doesn't seem to have fixed anything. Any time the board loses power the startup settings still reset and I have to use the physical keyboard to reconfigure it; not conducive to controlling it remotely as I'd prefer. Any ideas?

welp, replacing the replacement seems to have done the trick!
the og battery i replaced is long gone, but this is the replacement i put in like a month ago

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the empty slot

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and now a NEW replacement, i never would have thought to do it again.

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i put the sony battery into a different mobo and it seems to work... i swear i had it pushed all the way in, idk why it wasn't working. thanks for the help though!

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[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 points 2 weeks ago

Double check the new battery is good.

I just put a *new" button cell in my kitchen scale and well, it wasn't "new".