[Resolved] Computer problem(?)

[Bah! Name]

My PC just completely hung, so I pressed the button on the front. When it tried to reboot it said CMOS checksum error (Nervous laughter). It said Defaults loaded, press F1 to continue. So it did.

It then said found new hardware Universal Serial Bus controller or PCI bus or something. Then laoding new drivers. Or something. Then USB Root hub.

Then it all loaded okay, everything looking normal (Win 98 btw).
Except my clock said July 17th, 2001. So I set it back to normal.

Is this the sort of thing one should be worried about?? :/

Gregg

[Sgarissta]

Your CMOS battery may be dead, or dieing. It's a small watch-sized (typically) battery on the motherboard that keeps the CMOS powered enough to not lose its settings when the machine is off.

If you reboot it a couple more times and see the same sort of message, and are of an engineering mind, pop the case and hunt down the battery and get a replacement.