Oh well, I spoke too soon. It started giving trouble again yesterday. The symptoms were very similar in that pressing the power on button would result in the green power light coming on, the orange hard disk light would flash once or twice and then nothing would happen. Pressing the reset button didn't do anything this time. I opened the PC and took the RAM out and put it back in again, unplugged the bus to the hard drive and plugged it back in again, then restarted the PC and it worked.
Any ideas what could be causing this? Is it time to get her a new PC? Frank. Frank Cazabon Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions www.SamaanSystems.com Referrals are important to us. If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please contact me. We would appreciate the opportunity to work with them. On 19/07/2010 08:13 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: > Thanks everybody, so far that looks like it was the problem. I > changed the battery yesterday and everything seems to be running > smoothly so far. > > Frank. > > Frank Cazabon > Samaan Systems Ltd. - Developing Solutions > www.SamaanSystems.com > > Referrals are important to us. > If you know of anyone who would benefit from our services, please > contact me. We would appreciate the opportunity to work with them. > > > On 17/07/2010 02:57 PM, Paul Hill wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Tracy >> Pearson<[email protected]> wrote: >>> On 7/17/2010 9:02 AM, Frank Cazabon wrote: >>>> 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. >>>> >>> 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. >> I agree. >> Frank: It's worth checking this as sometimes CMOS batteries can leak >> acid! >> >> BTW, the blue batteries are easily replaceable, but require a >> soldering iron. >> > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
