On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:47:00 -0400, kony <spam@spam.com>
wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:55:44 -0500, "VanguardLH"
><V@nguard.LH> wrote:
>
>>No advance warning. On a reboot, the CMOS table (what the battery is
>>keeping alive) is cleared and the factory defaults load from EEPROM.
>>However, rare few users monitor for changes in their BIOS settings after
>>a reboot.
>>
>>Some [old] motherboards will not boot when the battery is low/dead.
>>Most motherboards will boot with a dead battery but you get the EEPROM
>>(factory) defaults on a cold start.
>>
>
>
>Old may not have much to do with it, the really old ones
>tended to at least POST w/o battery while the more recent (5
>year old or less) seem more likely not to.

I meant more likely not to than the really old ones, not
more likely not to than other contemporary boards.