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Repairing hardware

         

tangor

11:08 pm on May 19, 2020 (gmt 0)

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My dev machine (3 years old) took an unexpected nap for 13 days. Had other hardware to keep plugging along, but with all this accumulated CoVid-19 vacation time I looked the beast over.

Drives tested good. Memory fine. Cables correct ... Still would not power up.

On a whim I replaced the CR2032 battery on the motherboard.

Voila!

So for a buck and a few pennies I'm back with the beast. Will have to dig up my notes for the overclocking that made it a speed demon because the battery change set the bios to default!

Probably could have avoided this when I noticed over the last month that the CLOCK and DATE were falling off every few days...

Just a heads up, kiddies.

Then again, aren't those little batteries supposed to last up to 7 years?

Oh well.

graeme_p

10:01 am on May 20, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I have a 12 year old laptop that still works!

Not hugely useful but old machines can have secondary role, and it does still work with no repairs but I did memory and hard drive upgrades when about 8 or 9 years ago.