First post, by AppleSauce
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Hey all so I'm in a bit of a predicament , I ended up buying a duplicate motherboard of one I bought before ,
since the old one was DOA.
Which was fun because I had to wait 3 months for it to post from Russia.
The new one was 2 months from Germany.
The board in question is a MSI MS-5148.
So here's what happened
I started setting everything up and it was all going fine up till now ,
had the CPU , the RAM and a GPU installed to test it and to see if there were any serious issues , everything seemed fine.
But when I installed the floppy drives (A 3'5" 1.44mb and a 5' 360kb) I noticed it gave me a floppy disk failed message.
so I told the bios what the two drive types were and it let me continue.
However after rebooting from shutdown I noticed it had the same problem.
So I tried setting the time back a few years to 1994 and again powered down my pc rebooted again and sure enough it went back to the default time of 1997.
the battery is 100% brand new out of the pack , I had another almost as new battery from the same pack but same issue. So I doubt its the battery.
I did some reading and people mentioned the diodes going bad maybe caps , should I replace them?
Anyone have any ideas?