[frgeek-michiana] Re: Warehouse Report - 12/16/2008

  • From: "Tom Brown" <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:02:09 -0500

Do you know of any good suppliers?

Tom 

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> :: Wilson School
....
> 
> I gave the family a brief demo on how to boot and shut down the system 
> and warned them about the mobo battery which acted up when I first 
> booted the system -- it lost the date/time. The computer spent a whole 
> day in my car so it was cold when I set it up at Wilson. I rebooted the 
> system to show the family the likely problem, but the system booted 
> normally. I think the battery warmed up and ran at full available 
> voltage. Hopefully, it won't be a problem at their home.
....

I've been wondering if we might be better off replacing the batteries on the
mobos as a matter of course. Given the age of the systems we work with,
failure of the bios battery is likely to be imminent. The usual life of
these batteries is about 10 years, but I've seen them fail sooner.  

Mike
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