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piratePenguin:
I have an old computer that just won't do a damn thing, no output at all (well, the fans spin, an LED goes on, and that's it). Would that be a broken CMOS, or should/could it beep/something if the CMOS is broken?
The graphics card I was using in it is now working well on another computer, so it wasn't the graphics card.
adiment:
it could be a corrupted CMOS... definatly a motherboard problem though. Same thing happend to me when I fried my motherboard overclocking. It'd turn on and fans would spin, but nothing. Just sat there, doing nothing.
Aloone_Jonez:
Have you measured across the battery with a volt meter?
cymon:
--- Quote from: ReggieMicheals ---The PB computer I had(this was in the USA in the 90s, I don't know if they still do the same crap) had most of the parts integrated into the motherboard, so upgrading anything but the processor, 4 PCI devices, the drives, and the memory was nearly impossible(graphics card was integrated which was the thing that pissed me off later). To make it worse, the on board clock(not the instructions clock, but the one that was keeping time in the BIOS correct) was a Large Capacitor and not an actual battery, it died out and the BIOS would not allow me to access the Operating System. If Packard Bell still does shit like this I will not buy their computers...
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You can install a real video card, and then just turn off the onboard in the BIOS. And I don't know what you're on about, I had a Packard Bell in a garage for 4 years, and the CMOS clock was only off by five minutes.
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Have you measured across the battery with a volt meter?
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I have not.
It couldn't possibly be dangerous for me to try the battery from this computer on it, could it?
That might be worth trying some day.
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