cmos battery

[Adric Mitchell]

The CMOS battery is just a small watch battery on the motherboard.  
I've never had to change one (it's somewhat rare when you do), but  
just buying a replacement battery and popping it in should fix it.

On Jun 15, 2007, at 10:46 AM, norman wrote:

> The other day, when booting up I pressed 'Esc' in order to select a
> particular version of the kernel. To be certain I pressed the key
> several times and, eventually, got a message telling me that there had
> been a cmos battery failure and to press 'enter' to continue. Booting
> restarted and I was able to select the kernel I wanted. I now get this
> message every time I boot.
>
> Does this message mean anything disastrous, what adverse effects do I
> need to look out for and is there any way I can check to see if the
> message is valid? Please advise.
>
> Norman
>
>
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