On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 1:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had posted earlier that random chassis intrusion halts during boot > prompted me to change the CMOS battery. A mysterious failure to > start, solved by the passage of time, occurred before I got the > battery out. That mystery remains. The battery has been replaced. I > am hoping for no more intrusion halts. > > Galen suggested measuring the current through the intrusion jumper > might help illuminate the random halts. I have measured that current > as best I could. It appears to be about 0.1uA, the least count of my > Fluke 87. > > I calculate that the CR2032 should last 250 years at this current, so > I do not know why it is set so low. 10 uA would be too high, yielding > only 2.5 years battery life. > > Thursday night I was asked what my system was. The MB is an ASUS > M3N78-VM put into service June 2009. The CPU is an Athalon X2 4850e > 2.5 Ghz. I have 2G RAM and a SATA 500G HD. > > Is this as outdated as some of Thursday night quizzers thought it might be? >
It's newer than my motherboard :) What is your Bios version? The Bios for this board seems to have been updated many times, although I can't tell if any of the reasons apply to your problem. http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M3N78VM/HelpDesk_Download/ Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug