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 > > > > > > -----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 > > > > 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 > > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: family_jewels Type: application/octet-stream Size: 22732 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070825/43b849d1/attachment.obj
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