I have a machine that we use to run some monitoring tools and display the information on a big TV screen so everyone in the office can see it. This machine needs to be rebooted occasionally and the CMOS battery has low voltage. Everytime it is rebooted someone has to walk to the basement, climb over some stuff and hit f1 on a keyboard that I now have to leave plugged into it.
My question is...
Can I bypass this CMOS battery check in bios somehow? What are the drawbacks of doing this?
Thanks
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That would depend on which bios your dealing with.... Why dont you just replace the battery? It would probably be easier than searching for a work around.
Here are some cmos batteries.... Nearly every pc i have had has the first disc looking one for $3 (You want to verify this before you order though)
http://www.google.com/prod
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by: themrrobertPosted on 2009-11-03 at 15:04:23ID: 25734877
Use linux so you don't have to reboot it ;) Sorry I'm not great in low level hardware.
I would look in the BIOS settings itself and try and see if there is anything in there that you can do. If all else fails, you can go to radio shack, pick up a button, a battery pack, a motor, and enough wire to get to the basement (or get the cat5 or rj11 connections so you can wire through phone/LAN) and trigger the button to press the F1 key down ;)