Grant wrote:
>> >>>> > 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)
>>  

I had one with a dead battery too. It lost all the settings and the
clock reset back to 1971 or something like that but otherwise it worked
just fine. Well, after getting it to see the drives again.

Weird things happen I guess.

Dale

:-) :-)
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