And we have a winner!!!
Bill McGonigle wrote:
One more thing you can try - see how much current is coming out of the
motherboard settings battery with a meter. Or just replace it and see
if things improve. I've had some of the weirdest symptoms vanish with a
new battery - things you never
On Tuesday 12 December 2006 11:44 am, Larry Cook wrote:
And we have a winner!!!
This appears to be the problem. I disconnected the CMOS/NVRAM battery,
which is pretty much dead. I was then able to run memtest for 14+ hours
w/o a problem.
Wow - I'd never have imagined that. I'm gonna
Weird. Every time I've had a machine with a dead CMOS/NVRAM
battery it would be obvious because it would reload default
settings after every power cycle and bring up the BIOS config
screen - other than that I never saw any flaky behavior like
you described.
