Post by Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adressPost by Hans VlemsPost by Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adressGroup;
It seems my DEC PPro Celebris 5000 can't get past the bios screen.
Can't
Post by Hans VlemsPost by Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adressboot to floppy, hdd, or CD (never could to cd tho). I even get held
up
Post by Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adressin
Post by Hans VlemsPost by Doug Holtz NOSPAM in adressthe "setup" program.
Is my power supply going? Is it something else potentially?
TNX
Doug
May be the battery that lives on the motherboard?
Yup, was the 7 year old CMOS battery.
TNX
Doug
A dying CMOS battery causes all kinds of strange effects on the PC. Usually
at the worst possible moment. In our case my wife was writing a graduation
thesis. The Word file was approx. 20 MB in size and every (literally) time
she saved the file the computer rebooted.
The first suspect was Word and I tried a service pack. No luck. Next the OS,
again no service pack for W2k helped. So I opened up the system to remove
all but the most essential hardware to see whether it was hardware related.
That same evening a friend visited us and the first thing he said when
seeing
the PC with most of its parts out was: "Hey, the CMOS battery is sure
difficult to replace on these things, right?"
His own PC, an identical system had a failed battery a couple of days
earlier.
The battery (the system actually) was 5 years old at the time.
Hans