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Disk Write Error/Can't find hard drive/other blue screen areas/fre
"BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in : "BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in There is nothing here that I can see that might indicate a BIOS/CMOS battery problem - what do you see that I don't?? " when I rebooted the computer could not find the hard drive. After a couple of power off/on cycles, it found the drive again." IOW The thing could be on Auto Drnse and just not catdhing it on some tries. That has absolutely nothing to do with the state of the battery For both of you, here is an excerpt from my old logs: " Intel pentium pro 200, FX mobo, Award BIOS, Suffering from Various BSODs and sometimes not detecting HD. Reinstalled W98 and no joy. Finally checked CMOS bat and low voltage, replaced Bat and set BIOS to autodetect and all worked" In that case - it was probably the reset of the BIOS that did the trick rather than anything else - it may have had some misconfiguration...or you reseated the RAM in the process and that fixed things -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's |
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Disk Write Error/Can't find hard drive/other blue screen areas/fre
"Noel Paton" wrote in
: "BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in : "BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in There is nothing here that I can see that might indicate a BIOS/CMOS battery problem - what do you see that I don't?? " when I rebooted the computer could not find the hard drive. After a couple of power off/on cycles, it found the drive again." IOW The thing could be on Auto Drnse and just not catdhing it on some tries. That has absolutely nothing to do with the state of the battery For both of you, here is an excerpt from my old logs: " Intel pentium pro 200, FX mobo, Award BIOS, Suffering from Various BSODs and sometimes not detecting HD. Reinstalled W98 and no joy. Finally checked CMOS bat and low voltage, replaced Bat and set BIOS to autodetect and all worked" In that case - it was probably the reset of the BIOS that did the trick rather than anything else - it may have had some misconfiguration...or you reseated the RAM in the process and that fixed things Low voltage? You may be cirrect, but how does that figure? Trying to learn something jere. -- "Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor." Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet. Mike |
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Disk Write Error/Can't find hard drive/other blue screen areas/fre
The voltage actually required by the CMOS to stay 'live' is really a lot
lower than the (normally)3.2V that the battery delivers - it's regulated by a Zener Diode in the circuit, I believe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS gives some background -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in : "BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in : "BJ Honeycut" wrote in message . .. "Noel Paton" wrote in There is nothing here that I can see that might indicate a BIOS/CMOS battery problem - what do you see that I don't?? " when I rebooted the computer could not find the hard drive. After a couple of power off/on cycles, it found the drive again." IOW The thing could be on Auto Drnse and just not catdhing it on some tries. That has absolutely nothing to do with the state of the battery For both of you, here is an excerpt from my old logs: " Intel pentium pro 200, FX mobo, Award BIOS, Suffering from Various BSODs and sometimes not detecting HD. Reinstalled W98 and no joy. Finally checked CMOS bat and low voltage, replaced Bat and set BIOS to autodetect and all worked" In that case - it was probably the reset of the BIOS that did the trick rather than anything else - it may have had some misconfiguration...or you reseated the RAM in the process and that fixed things Low voltage? You may be cirrect, but how does that figure? Trying to learn something jere. -- "Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor." Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet. Mike |
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