David J Brooks escribió:
Well, it looks like its time to do something about my 8 year old MDG P4 computer. Its been acting up again the last few weeks, not booting. It does after a number of reboots. I get a boot fail, system halted, or a full DOS screen with all my memory numbers and a few other things, and at the bottom i get press f12 to boot form network or f1 to enter set up. I enter set up, scroll over to exit and it boots. Its an old machine, slow and USB 1.1 to boot, but its calibrated well for my Epson 2400 prints, so i'm leaning on fixing it one more time. Going in Saturday for a look see. Hopefully adding a new HD and mapping my stuff off the old one will work. The HD was upgraded 3 years ago and never really worked well after. Many boot problems, but it would work, eventually.
The symptoms you describe are compatible with an exhausted battery. Every motherboard has a small lithium battery to keep the PC clock running and also the BIOS settings which are kept in a CMOS memory. That battery (usually a CR2032) has the size and shape of a coin and it is cheap and easy to change. Around here, they are easily found in hardware shops or even supermarkets. They last about 8 or 10 years, so it seems that the one in your PC is already flat. I would buy one of those and try to revive the ocmputer.
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