Remember, It could be the battery

[Dravic]

Just a reminder to those who have older hardware around. If it begins to get a little flacky, strange booting issue, and freeze ups... it could be the CMOS battery..


My smoothwall firewall was acting up after update4-386 was applied a few days ago. The system would just stop responding after some period of time. Couldnt figure it out for the life of me. Thought the update had broked it, but there we no similar post about the issue on their forums.

Well bios data must have been in a corrupt/failed state. It wasn't until i slapped a head(monitor) on it that i saw the CMOS checksum error. $6.99 for 2 from the local pharmacy has solved my issues.

The kids computer was also acting up in this stange manner, i just had't gotten around to troubehooting it, but that cr2032 appears to also be dead. Its battery gave a checksum error when i tried it in the smoothwall box after tyring to save settings as well. Off to replace that one too. Might just be a Christmas present for daddy.

instead of ~$250(790gx, ram, cpu) on a new substem for the kids, i just might end up with upgrade money for daddy..

$6.99 vs ~$250

Ho Ho Ho...

 

[looper]

Wow, dravic...

Sometimes things work out for the best! Great!

This was not a good week for me.... laid off from my job on Tues the 12th(never lost a job since my first job out of college in 1971), and fried my MB with a poorly executed OC on Wednesday....WOW...

I hope the Patriots win Sunday! ( New Englander...)

 

[Dravic]

Rooting for the Pats too, Displaced Worcester kid here..

Hope the job market recovers quickly for you. If gas prices get below $1.00 which some think, maybe it will act as a unintended stimulus to businesses and get a lot of good people back to work.


Looks like the kid's PC is back in actions also. That looks like it was a combination of the new bios(to recognize the "hand me down" 939 dual core) settings piggy backing on a dead CMOS battery.

 

[looper]

Thx!! Glad your comp is ok now....

Yeah, the Pats have to win all their remaining games, and hope the Jets lose at least one, because they won't win the wild card...

Oh well, we got the Celtics....playing awesome again this season. I'm just concerned w/ injuries to one of the "big 3"... it's a long and brutal season....