[kwlug-disc] Having trouble with some Dell Precision T5600

[Charles McColm]

Although it seems strange we’ve also run into intermittent problems with various systems caused by a bad 3v CMOS battery, though that system is new enough I’d expect the battery should be just fine.

That said we had 2 systems last week that replacing the CMOS battery (one on a RAID card) fixed a “dead” system. Normally we measure the battery using a multimeter. New CMOS batteries measure over 3v (around 3.27 if I remember correctly).



From: kwlug-disc [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] On Behalf Of Federer Fanatic
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:02 AM
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Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Having trouble with some Dell Precision T5600

It's not posting and this after NOT changing bios settings.



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On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:26 AM Stuart Seeley <stuart at lowlevel.ca<mailto:stuart at lowlevel.ca>> wrote:
I've seen a bad ata disk cause that on similar model... smart status would pass but it would just cause this behavior until I got rid ofbit. I think there is a built in diagnostic if you hit F12 on post...

Stuart

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> On Jan 9, 2019, at 9:44 PM, Federer Fanatic <nafdef at gmail.com<mailto:nafdef at gmail.com>> wrote:
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> Hi, Just curious if anyone knows of a Dell expert that truly understands
> the nuances of Dell hardward with respect to the machine I mentioned
> in the subject line. The problem I am having is the machine don't boot
> consistently, i.e., sometimes the bios comes up other times nothing happens.
> My suspicision is the Dells are sensitive to the power coming into them
> that causes them to "sleep"--not sure what the terminology is.
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> Any thoughts?
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