Keeps going into BIOS everytime I start comp.

[PacMan]

Sys Spec.
Asus A7V333
AMD XP 1800
512 mb ram pc-2100
Win Xp pro

Hi,
Ok, I shut down and turn the power off. I come back to it later and everytime it starts up, it goes into bios and the system date is year 2000 with time at 12:00 am. So everytime is start up my comp, I go through the bios as if something is wrong (obviously). Is it the Bios battery that’s the problem or can it be something wrong with the boot process? Because I installed some program which was supposed to make my boot faster and after that, the problem started. Now I reinstalled windows thinking the program only did that to the windows boot file, but still, the same problem.
Oh, if i restart, no problem.
Any programs to diagnose the problem or any ideas why this is doing this?

Thanks for you time

[hudsonsmith]

You need to replace the battery

[notorious_carl]

I would replace the bios battery and flash the bios if you feel comfortable doing that. good luck.

[freddy]

I would replace the bios battery and flash the bios if you feel comfortable doing that. good luck.

replace the battery and flash the bios ONLY if u need the options that are available on later bios,es ,

the A7V333 , had 2 revisions , version 1 would only go to 2.2-2.4g ,,,ie 266 ,,whereas the revision 2 would allow 333 , unless you wish to run a "faster" or higher freq CPU,,,then don,t do it.

if u want to go from , i think sub 1006 to a later version , u will have to flash this chip , in several stages.

remember that the bios on this board is not the normal plug in bios , ,,,but is a smaller version (4 sided) ,,,which will be harder to recover.

unless u have a problem , that was fixed in a later revision DON,T flash it



freddy