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I have a Acer T180 AMD Athlon 64 x2
When I try and turn it on it just beeps 3 times and pauses before doing 3 beeps again.
If you take the bios battery out and put straight back in it boots up fine - for one boot. Shut it down and the same problem occurs.
Any ideas how I go about solving this I have tried different memory so far.
2isn't going to hurt anything to replace it. I do agree that it sounds like the CMOS battery is the problem. – Simurr – 2011-05-11T21:24:12.977
http://www.bioscentral.com/beepcodes/phoenixbeep.htm# <- this computer used a Phoenix BIOS which has the beep codes in the site mentioned. Looks like a battery issue. You might also try loading the default (factory default) CMOS settings in the BIOS. – Doltknuckle – 2011-05-11T21:33:54.943
Tried defaults and changing settings around but didnt help. Will try and get a new battery for it. Are they a standard size? – Andrew – 2011-05-11T22:45:46.753
You should have a lithium coin (the ones that look like a watch battery) and, I can't recall off the top of my head, but I think it's just a CR2032 which are really common. Looking at top of the battery will tell you. – Blomkvist – 2011-05-12T00:32:14.420
I did exactly that when I got home. New battery has fixed the problem :D – Andrew – 2011-05-13T07:31:20.793