Is it one of the older Compaqs, Compaq consumer (post 2007 HP) or HP Compaq (Business)? The issue with these back then on the consumer side is they were always “budget HPs” with binned parts so they often had more OOW issues then the HPs of the era. It sounds like you have one of the HP Consumer era units. The HP Compaq Commercial units are tanks.
Next thing I would try is to remove the CMOS battery and hope for the best, but it’s probably a bad motherboard if a new battery didn’t help. I had one fail almost before the warranty expired in high school due to the lower quality parts, since they’re so cheaply built sad to say. Sometimes the BIOS just needs a physical reset and it sounds like there may be something funky in the CMOS RAM.
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What connector does the battery have?
da Andrew S
Eight pins connector...
da Ode Innocent