I have encountered so many boards which storing a single bit in CMOS would render inoperable that I am starting to be crazy about that.
Last time it is my parents PC with DFI LANParty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert. The symptoms are the same as usually: when you clear CMOS, it works fine. When you store a bit in there, it fails to POST. In real world that means you turn off or reboot the computer and as Windows and possibly every OS writes something in there, even though it would be time update, it does not POST after that. And certainly it is bad to use board in factory defaults with factory time, especially having to reset it manually each time.
This time there is only one difference: I know this board's CMOS has been written to every day at least twice: it has some strange like-a-backup function which saves your BIOS settings each time the board sucesfully POSTs, just before the boot process. And than the OS does the time update and maybe other writes. So that makes me think it is bad CMOS memory?
Last time it is my parents PC with DFI LANParty UT nF4 SLI-DR Expert. The symptoms are the same as usually: when you clear CMOS, it works fine. When you store a bit in there, it fails to POST. In real world that means you turn off or reboot the computer and as Windows and possibly every OS writes something in there, even though it would be time update, it does not POST after that. And certainly it is bad to use board in factory defaults with factory time, especially having to reset it manually each time.
This time there is only one difference: I know this board's CMOS has been written to every day at least twice: it has some strange like-a-backup function which saves your BIOS settings each time the board sucesfully POSTs, just before the boot process. And than the OS does the time update and maybe other writes. So that makes me think it is bad CMOS memory?
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