CMOS Error..Also BIOS wont save settings...

Well, as the title says, i get a "CMOS checksum bad" error on system startup. This never occur'd until i upgaded my BIOS to the latest version, and ever since then i get this checksum error, and also my BIOS doesnt save ANY settings which i change.
Heres what happens, i start up my PC, here a quick "beep" noise, then this comes up:
Quote
CMOS Checksum Bad
Press F1 to run setup
Press F2 to load default values and contine.
I then press F2, and continue.
The BIOS problem is strange, as i said,everything was fine until i upgraded my BIOS. Now, whenever i access the BIOS setup page, and change a setting, then press F10 to exit and save, my computer restarts (after i have pressed F10,as it should), and then i go back into my BIOS to check the settings, and they have gone back to what they were before i changed them!!
The motherboard i use is MSI P4M890M-L
If anyone could help me, i would REALLY appreciate it,thanks!
P.S. It has been suggested to me that my CMOS battery may have died, can this be possible?? my motherboard is only about 4-5 days old...my other one lasted longer than this, 7 years, and still counting.
EDIT: Well, for now it appears to be fixed. I just restored the old version of my BIOS which came with the motherboard and it appears to have booted up successfully this time round, also, my BIOS now saves correctly, and the "beep" noise has gone :D Sorry to waste your time.

I had the same problem after I flashed the new bios in windows mode. I downloaded the old bios which must be flashed from a dos mode. I noticed that one of the last steps in the flash update tool in dos is to destroy the cmos checksum.  In windows mode it doesn't do this. Maybe that's the problem

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