Removed CMOS battery as advised, this is what happened.
On first start-up a few messages came up and I am sure the first one was that it could not detect the battery and then one that said I had to reset time and date. It went into bios and reset time and date, exited saving settings and the computer restarted. I tried to re-enter bios with F2 to no avail. The second time, and this morning when I started the PC Bios does not show the F2 option on screen.
So, in short, still no fix.