On 7/17/2010 9:02 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: > Hi, > > I am definitely not a techy when it comes to the ins and outs of PC > hardware, but my mother's PC (probably 8 years old Windows XP) is giving > some trouble so it ended up with me to advise on it. I know I've seen > some advice here, so hoping for some help. > > The symptoms are: > > 1. When the PC is powered on, the green power light comes on and nothing > else. Nothing on the monitor. If left, it could just sit there for hours. > > 2. If I press the reset button from this state, we then get the boot up > screen and a warning about "Please re-setting the cpu frequency in > cmos". If we press F1 as instructed, the PC continues and boots up fine. > > 3. Prior to this she had been getting messages about the hard drive > being full. She has a 40GB drive with two partitions , 10GB for Windows > and programs which was almost full (I have now cleared it down to have > just less than 1GB free). > > 4. The first time a problem was encountered, the PC would not start up > but we would hear a beep. I no longer get that beep. > > Any ideas on what to check? > > It sounds like the CMOS battery is dead. If it is user replaceable, you'll probably find a button battery on the mother board. If not, it could be soldered onto the board as a blue shrink wrapped batteries. Some of the older mother boards I worked with during that time had a pin terminal which an external CMOS battery could be attached.
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