On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Bob Miller <k...@jogger-egg.com> wrote:
> I have a PC that has become flaky. I built it in Spring, 2003. > (Pentium 4 at 2.4 GHz, i865 > chipset.) If I turn it on, about half the time it will POST, about > 1/4 the time it will boot, and > once in a while it will make it into the X desktop for a few minutes. > > Is it possible that some of these failures are caused by a dead CMOS > battery? Should a > CMOS battery be dead after 8 years? (I'm thinking it should have died > after three or four.) > The box has been sitting unplugged for a couple of months, which would > let the battery > discharge. > > There is a possibly related problem that I can't get the Ethernet > interface to hold its MAC > address across reboots. That's the reason I unplugged it last autumn. > > I will reseat all the boards while I await your answers. > > Thanks. > > Check the power supply first, sounds a lot like a bad power supply. However, that motherboard is from the era of bad capacitors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague Do you see any leaky capacitors anywhere? Bill > -- > Bob Miller K<bob> > k...@jogger-egg.com > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >
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