[mdlug] Help diagnosing hardware problem - not solved

Jeff Hanson jhansonxi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 21:14:04 EDT 2009


On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Robert Adkins<radkins at impelind.com> wrote:
> Did you pop out the CMOS battery for about 5 minutes and then reapply power?
> I have found that sometimes, the BIOS can become wonky and clearing it via
> battery drain can rectify the issue. (That still doesn't mean that the old
> Power Supply is good, it could have sent the wrong voltage for the correct
> amount of time to toss the BIOS off.)

Actually a low battery can cause all sorts of problems.  Voltage
should be 3.0V minimum.



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