In all it's vagueness...
I think Tom was implying that the CMOS battery will no longer trickle charge if you interrupt power at the source rather than at the mobo level. There's normally maintenance power (don't know the exact term) present even when the softstart is off. That's why it's a softstart, of course. Switch the softstart off, pull off the case, and you'll frequently see a little green LED still going on the mobo. Unplug or switch off the mains power and it goes out. Now you're runnig on battery only--maybe that means shorter batter life, maybe not. It's your CMOS. Those batteries last a long time. It's relatively trivial to replace a switch and/or power supply, depending on whether the box is worth the effort. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
