I have a PC that has become flaky. I built it in Spring, 2003. (Pentium 4 at 2.4 GHz, i865 chipset.) If I turn it on, about half the time it will POST, about 1/4 the time it will boot, and once in a while it will make it into the X desktop for a few minutes.
Is it possible that some of these failures are caused by a dead CMOS battery? Should a CMOS battery be dead after 8 years? (I'm thinking it should have died after three or four.) The box has been sitting unplugged for a couple of months, which would let the battery discharge. There is a possibly related problem that I can't get the Ethernet interface to hold its MAC address across reboots. That's the reason I unplugged it last autumn. I will reseat all the boards while I await your answers. Thanks. -- Bob Miller K<bob> [email protected] _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
