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Real Time Clock failure? 5 beep error code!

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Cmos battery dead.

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   Ok. I have a dell inspiron 660s all out on a table, I'm testing it. Here is the issue. When I plug it in and press the power button I have on it, it beeps 5 times. When I search it up, it says "Real Time Clock failure." I have no idea what that means. The PC has 4gb of ram, some custom form factor small mobo, some optical drive pulled from some old acer, a 500gb caviar blue HDD by WD, sandy bridge 2nd gen Pentium, and a hyper t4 without thermal paste just sitting on top of the cpu not mounted(only for testing) the pc has been working in this stupid setup for the last couple of days.. but now this is happening. What is causing this "Real Time Clock failure."? I don't even know what that means...

MOTHERBOARD: some Asus motherboard CPU: I3-4130 GPU: Gigabyte(?) GT-1030 RAM: 8GB G.SKILL SNIPER 1600MHZ RAM + 4GB AMD ram PSU: Corsair CX450 CASE: Corsair Spec-03 OS: Win 10 64 bit Keyboard: Logitech G510s Mouse: Corsair G300s Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T5
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Cmos battery dead.

  With all the bad computers I have lying around.. I was wondering if this is the issue :P Thanks.

MOTHERBOARD: some Asus motherboard CPU: I3-4130 GPU: Gigabyte(?) GT-1030 RAM: 8GB G.SKILL SNIPER 1600MHZ RAM + 4GB AMD ram PSU: Corsair CX450 CASE: Corsair Spec-03 OS: Win 10 64 bit Keyboard: Logitech G510s Mouse: Corsair G300s Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T5
I like outdoor warning sirens. Ask me anything about them.

 

 

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Cmos battery dead.

   It works now :D I found the original one. The one I was using for the past couple of days was pulled from some windows vista acer..

MOTHERBOARD: some Asus motherboard CPU: I3-4130 GPU: Gigabyte(?) GT-1030 RAM: 8GB G.SKILL SNIPER 1600MHZ RAM + 4GB AMD ram PSU: Corsair CX450 CASE: Corsair Spec-03 OS: Win 10 64 bit Keyboard: Logitech G510s Mouse: Corsair G300s Camera: Canon EOS Rebel T5
I like outdoor warning sirens. Ask me anything about them.

 

 

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