[mdlug] Help diagnosing hardware problem - not solved

[Michael Rudas]

--- Robert Adkins <radkins at impelind.com> wrote:

[snip]
> The battery doesn't have to be dead or near the end of its life for the BIOS
> to go wonky. I was recently running a restore on a new 1TB SATA HD installed
> into a fairly new HP higher end desktop that came with 320GB drives.
>
> Part way through the process, the system just "coughed" or something and it
> stopped recognizing the 1TB drive.
>
> After removing the CMOS battery, restoring it (after about 10 minutes) and
> then reattaching the drive, the computer recognized the 1TB HD again and
> completed the installation of the master recovery program and completed the
> OS install.

All current motherboards have a "dump CMOS RAM settings" jumper to
eliminate the need to yank the coin cell and wait.  It's usually right
next to the lithium cell.

~~ Michael Rudas
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