CMOS Battery

[Iroquois]

I've got an old Zida Tomatoboard 6MLX Pentium II mobo I'm trying to revive.

When I try to boot it, it beeps 10 times. I found a beep translator for AMI BIOS chips. It states that 10 beeps means there is a "CMOS checksum error. Something on the motherboard is causing an error when trying to interact with the CMOS."

Do you think a dead CMOS battery could be causing this? I took the old one out and noticed it was dead.

[Dan]

As its dead, replace it. It just gives your BIOS a bad case of amnesia.
Dan

[Iroquois]

I forgot to mention it isn't booting at all. It just beeps at me.

[Jared]

lol, sounds like fun! ;-)

Hope you figure it out..:-)

[Iroquois]

Got it fixed. It was the Geforce 2 that was causing the problem. I found my old Trident VGA card and it works like a charm.