Well, not as old as this one...
The cmos on it was dead, didn't feel like dealing with the battery again (I had replaced it, it was bad, though)
Every time it was shut down, to bring it up:
1. Move hard drive to other connector on cable.
2. Power on, go to bios, detect hard drive
3. Move hard drive to original connector.
4. Exit bios and boot
It just would not detect the hard drive in bios on the one connector, but it wouldn't read the hard drive on the other. Still haven't found anyone who can think of a good reason why. Anyway, the motherboard is now a wall clock, the one meg RAM chips are keychains, the CPU is pinned to my backpack, and my recent paperweight is now a fully functioning User Friendly viewer again. |
