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‎12-05-2016 04:02 PM

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> ... computer always kept the time and date along with all the system setting correct after every reset.

 

That is all of what the CMOS settings are supposed to retain.

 

> I thought if the CMOS battery was dead, it would not keep those setting. 

 

If completely dead, then you're correct.

If it is only "weak", and the message is just a "warning", not an "error", then all bets are off.

 

As for "system settings", most of the time, in modern computers, the owner never needs to change the "default" settings.

 

I'm wondering if you deliberately have been entering BIOS SETUP, changing something, doing a "save-and-exit", and then "losing" that setting the next time that the computer is powered-on from "cold".  Put differently, how can you tell that the "current" system settings are not the same as the "default" system settings?

 

‎12-05-2016 04:06 PM

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IMPORTANT: please read: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01443470

 

about the '601' error, and the procedures to follow for diagnosis of the error.

 

So, you may be correct -- the CMOS-battery is fine, but the "big" battery has been diagnosed to be the problem.

 

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