> >>>> > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was > >>>> > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the > >>>> > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs > >>>> > replacement or if I have two dead power supplies? > >>>> > > As strange as this may sound, we had a server go down and we thought > psu/mb. it turned out to be the cmos battery. We replaced it (about four > years ago), the server has been flawless since.
Different motherboards must exhibit different behavior with a bad CMOS battery. Another desktop of mine prints an error to the POST screen about its bad battery. There is a comment here from another owner of my MSI motherboard: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127597/show_product_reviews "This is a great board too, except i got an error each boot-turns out the battery was dead, swapped it and it was ok" It sounds like my motherboard should still boot with a bad battery. - Grant > Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
