Ashish SHUKLA said on Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 08:46:15AM +0530,:
> Are you sure your RTC (real-time clock) battery is not discharged ? Maybe try
> replacing the battery.
This certainly is not a battery / RTC problem, because things work
perfectly with the new drive disconnected.
> I used to experience these issues (has nothing to do with RTC) some years
> ago,
> mostly due to crappy SMPS, bad power/data cable which got fixed after I
> replaced its SMPS.
Again, everything on the system is same - except a new drive and its
cable. Did try changing the cable; no avail. Did try with the other
SATA dirk disconnected, again no avail.
> And what's that error message you get from BIOS ?
How do I find out - except with the POST card you mentioned?
> > 2. Is there a problem with the new disk?
>
> Very less likely.
Thanks, it is a relief to hear that.
Anyway, the system was powered off few minutes after I posted the
question, and powered on just now; and with the new HDD disconnected,
things work just fine. Since ifup scripts automatically run ntpdate
sync, the system time is all right just now. And syslog says time was
offset by a mere -0.3odd seconds.
I hate to tinker with the bios; and chipset is z not supported by
flashrom. :-( That by itself does not seem to be a problem, since the
BIOS seems to support reading from ISO9660 filesystems for upgrading
the BIOS. There goes my weekend!!! (120KM commuting and a 15hour work
schedule is not very conducive for flashing the BIOS). .
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Mahesh T. Pai ||
L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'etre.
* Man is free at the instant he wants to be.
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