LCD Frisbee

[John Formsma]

Most of mine have bitten the silicon dust long before the CMOS battery did.

Anyway, Ron, just be thankful the brain cells are firing, even if it
is belatedly.  <g>

Maybe people have something like a CMOS battery that fails and causes
erratic, unexplained behavior.  For instance...attached is a photo of
a sign for an actual establishment in a small Mississippi town where I
worked Friday.  Then today at Walmart I saw a gal wearing a
horizontally striped shirt with camouflage pants.  Only happens in
Mississippi (I hope). <g>

JF

On 8/25/07, Geoff Sykes <thetuner at ivories52.com> wrote:
> I have had this happen to me twice on two different desktop PC's. The first
> time was a disaster in that the resulting random activity as the battery was
> dying caused a lot of important system files to get scrambled. The second
> time I understood the symptoms and did the swap in time. What I don't
> understand is why manufactures don't put a little warning into the bios that
> tells us that the battery is either low, or that it's been xx years since it
> was last replaced. I'm sure we're not alone in our experience. Of course it
> could also be a case of either forced planned obsolescence, or manufactures
> not grasping the fact that many of us hold on to our computers for a very
> long time. (- sigh -)
>
> -- Geoff Sykes
> -- Los Angeles
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of Ron Nossaman
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 3:57 PM
> To: Pianotech
> Subject: LCD Frisbee
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> Another minor saga in the life of SuperFutz!
>
> For years, my old Compaq laptop wouldn't run for more than
> about five or ten minutes on a battery charge, so I just kept
> it on the charger when I used it. Finally, it started getting
> strange and had a couple of minor psychotic episodes that
> prompted me to go battery shopping. A new Lithium-ion battery,
> fully charged, and it fired right up - for about a half hour,
> then blinked out suddenly. I dinked around with it off and on
> for a couple of days, then just ignored it for another week,
> putting off the revelation that it was fried for as long as I
> could. This afternoon, glaring at it as I walked past, a brain
> cell belatedly fired. *CMOS*, it said. Well, duh. So I got the
> thing apart this afternoon without breaking anything
> important, pulled sub assemblies until I found the tiny button
> cell, went out and got a replacement, and put the thing back
> together with no major parts left over. It works. Slowly, like
> it always did. You'd think as many desktop systems as I've put
> together, upgraded, salvaged, cannibalized, and resurrected
> through the years, I'd have thought of the CMOS battery
> sooner. Argh...
>
> Ron N
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