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Will a comp start with out cmos battery

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Old 06-28-2009
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Will a comp start with out cmos battery

I have an older laptop with out a DVD drive so i formatted in a desktop and put it into the laptop but when i started it up it says the cmos batt is dead push f1 to continue or f2 to enter set up so i push f1 it goes to the screen start in safe mode normally or last know good config i push normal and it freeze's good this be because of the dead cmos batt
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Old 06-28-2009
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As far as i know it should start fine, you just need to keep entering the time and date.
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