> >>>> > A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was
> >>>> > the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the
> >>>> > problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs
> >>>> > replacement or if I have two dead power supplies?
> >>>>
>
> As strange as this may sound, we had a server go down and we thought
> psu/mb. it turned out to be the cmos battery. We replaced it (about four
> years ago), the server has been flawless since.

Different motherboards must exhibit different behavior with a bad CMOS
battery. Another desktop of mine prints an error to the POST screen
about its bad battery. There is a comment here from another owner of
my MSI motherboard:

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127597/show_product_reviews

"This is a great board too, except i got an error each boot-turns out
the battery was dead, swapped it and it was ok"

It sounds like my motherboard should still boot with a bad battery.

- Grant

> Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
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