On Mon, 1 Jun 2020 at 23:08, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-06-01 at 15:55 -0600, Joe Zeff wrote: > > If the CMOS battery is going bad, there will be a lot more problems > > than just losing the settings of one drive! If none of the other > > settings are giving trouble, it's not the battery. > > I do wonder about that. How many BIOS settings are ignored post-boot? > And how many things are left at default by users who never customise > their system? > Some old 7x24 systems continue to work fine running linux and getting time from the network long after the battery has failed. I assume there are differences in the way a BIOS deals with a bad battery. A well engineered system should detect a battery problem and use defaults. I have seen warning messages about a bad CMOS checksum. -- George N. White III
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