On 05/19/2014 02:53 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 9:23 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote:
On 05/18/2014 11:38 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
Motherboard battery? Can you boot an Ubuntu Live CD, because those
tend to have more recent kernels than SL, and more stable ones than
Fedora.
Hi Niko,
Thank you! I don't think I have ever changed its
battery either.
This only happens when the machine has been off for a day
or more. So, you may be on to something. I will go into
bios and check to see it the date is all messed up. Maybe
change the $1.35 battery anyway, just because it is really
cheap to do. (I change those batteries for free for my
customers -- a nice customer relations gesture.)
Why do so many nice people misspell my name? It's "Nico", short for Ignacio.
Oops. My apologies.
Probably got you mixed up with someone famous:
http://www.famousbirthdays.com/names/nico.html
Yeah, sounds like the battery. The various capacitors can keep charges
on relevant low power circuitry going for a while, especially the
bulkier electrolytic caps. I don't get to play much with hardware
anymore, sadly, but we could have some *long* talks about capacitor
behavior under extremely low load.
Capacitors seem to be the week spot on most motherboards.
That, and burning out the USB ports.
I have noticed that Asus and Supermicro have started using
solid Japanese capacitors. Things may be looking up.
-T
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