[mdlug] Seeking advice or at least commiseration - possibly solved

[ricky]

My Dell Optiplex GX260's CMOS battery went dead on me.
Thus, whenever I booted up I had to get into the CMOS setup screen to 
enter date & time.
Getting a new CMOS battery got me past this issue.
I was also happy to discover that the GX260's CMOS battery was one of 
those quarter size watch batteries; it was easy to pop it and replace 
it.  I wish all computers used such a battery.
Rick Staff
P.S. The GX260 was a dual boot Windows XP and Linux PC. During a Linux 
upgrade I reformatted the hard drive for Linux only. -- Linux Mint 17 
using the XFCE desktop.  The GX260 is very old, with minimal resources, 
but makes an excellent backup PC!

On 07/29/2015 09:50 AM, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:24:54 +0000
> "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at dynatrace.com> wrote:
>
>
>> 1. Depleted battery corrupting BIOS settings.
> If that battery is more than 2 years old, on general principles replace
> it, and clean the battery holder's contacts with contact lubricant.
> Intermittents can take hours or days to solve, a battery costs $2.00,
> making it one of the best gambles you'll ever take.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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