CMOS Settings keep losing Time, Date and Drives

[Righty]

I am working on an old Gateway 2000. I understand it is outdated but I have a question as to what causes the CMOS settings to disappear. Everytime I reboot, I have to go into the setup and reinstall the settings for the main hard drive. The slave hard drive will sometimes stay in the settings without having to be retyped. But I constantly receive a CMOS checksum error. Is it the battery? Normally I would check the battery myself except this is so old that it has a different battery. What causes the the settings to be lost if I shutdown correctly?
Is there a problem with the BIOS?

 

[franklin97355]

Change the battery before you do anything else. The symptoms are classic battery failure.

 

[Bonestein]

yeap, battery is dead.

 

[Breakerfall]

R.I.P battery

Breakerfall
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[nlm9802]

it is probably the battery.. however, have you checked to see if the bios jumper is there?

if not, it will not save the settings when power is lost. the jumper has to bridge the cmos and the battery to maintain power.

Nick
Computer Support, no not just hardware.. I support everything

 

[ceh4702]

Sometimes no matter what you do replacing the battery does not help. The Motherboard just wares out and will not work right.

If you do not like my post feel free to point out your opinion or my errors.

 

[juliusmercado]

change battery, if it is still faulty then you can look at the cmos itself