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computer won't power up w/o removing cmos battery
I've got a desktop that I replaced the hd, cdr, and put an old video
card in a pci slot. The agp card I had was showing vertical lines & rectangles, so I replaced it w/an old card from another machine. Now, my machine won't start up unless I take out the lithium battery EVERY time. Winxppro is on it and once it starts, it does fine. After win. shuts it down it won't start up again w/o removing the battery. I've unplugged everything one at a time & tried to see if I could get power, but no results. It also will not shut down simply by pressing the front pwr button or start up. The reset button works, but that's all. I put the old video card back in just to see if I got pwr w/it & nothing changed. When it does start back up it says the cmos battery is low, but I just put in a brand new one to be safe. It's an intel desktop mb, p4 1.6ghz, ati 3D rage II + pci video card, 300w pwr supply. I also added a zip drive. Any ideas on what could be happening? :roll: |
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reset/set defaults in the cmos after you put the battery in.
"ARuddick" wrote in message ... I've got a desktop that I replaced the hd, cdr, and put an old video card in a pci slot. The agp card I had was showing vertical lines & rectangles, so I replaced it w/an old card from another machine. Now, my machine won't start up unless I take out the lithium battery EVERY time. Winxppro is on it and once it starts, it does fine. After win. shuts it down it won't start up again w/o removing the battery. I've unplugged everything one at a time & tried to see if I could get power, but no results. It also will not shut down simply by pressing the front pwr button or start up. The reset button works, but that's all. I put the old video card back in just to see if I got pwr w/it & nothing changed. When it does start back up it says the cmos battery is low, but I just put in a brand new one to be safe. It's an intel desktop mb, p4 1.6ghz, ati 3D rage II + pci video card, 300w pwr supply. I also added a zip drive. Any ideas on what could be happening? :roll: |
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I tried that. No change.
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Thanks all, got it to work, finally!
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On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 06:26:48 GMT It was a dark and stormy night when
John Doe wrote : (ARuddick) wrote: Thanks all, got it to work, finally! How? Ditto. -- Free Windows/PC help, http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/trouble.html remove obvious to reply Free original songs to download and,"BURN" :O) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/8/nomessiahsmusic.htm |
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