Tinker Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 A $3 cure..After 18 hours of troubleshooting I hope the problem has been found. The mother board is an Intel D850EMV2L. Symptoms:Random rebootsBoot failureLoss of HDD on IDEFlash screen freeze on bootChange settings in BIOS but would not take effectOther strange boogersAfter total and multiple fresh installs of 2 different O.S. and long stairs at the monitor screen (complete with hand gestures), resetting the BIOS, etc. I finally got a chance to see the screen warning that the CMOS battery was low. Well now I have to check this out, correct? At 11 o’clock at night I ran down to the local drug store (which is open 24\7) after being up for 16 hours and bought a $3 watch battery. In this case it is a CR2032. Note: By this time I am looking pretty ragged which drew the attention of the store manager because he came up and stood by the female check out attendant while I purchased the battery. I must have looked like I was going to rob the place.Going home and taking the massive power in my hand (the battery is 3 V, it must be a dollar a volt) and placing it into it’s new home I started to tremble as I placed my finger on the “Power on” button. Well as I gazed in amazement the “CMOS batter low” alert was still in place. However the computer was starting to act in a normal fashion. This prompted me to do some more troubleshooting which lead me to updating the BIOS of both the System board and the RAID controller as well as an updated driver for the Promise TX2000. After doing so things started to take shape and after some tweaking of the system now appears to be operating in a normal fashion..What a day.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b0r3d Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Well done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carmon Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 $3 safety or wat lol sounds like u had fun lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveXP Posted September 15, 2003 Share Posted September 15, 2003 Sounds like you got problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techguy21801 Posted September 21, 2003 Share Posted September 21, 2003 sounds like after wards you might of needed a shot or two. :beer: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSNwar Posted September 27, 2003 Share Posted September 27, 2003 ... and long stairs at the monitor screen (complete with hand gestures), ...LMAO @ hand gestures. My wife says I do that all the time even though I do not realize it, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted September 28, 2003 Share Posted September 28, 2003 After total and multiple fresh installs of 2 different O.S. and long stairs at the monitor screen (complete with hand gestures),i found that amusing too grats' on the fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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