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

[Nickle, Brian]

Disconnect everything from the mainboard.  Including RAM, cards, etc.  Add
the power supply cables.  Apply power you should get beep codes about
missing ram.  Power off the system. add 1 stick of ram back in. boot the
system.  continue to doe this adding only essential components until you
see the system post.



On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:25 AM Charles McColm <
charlesm at theworkingcentre.org> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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).
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> *From:* kwlug-disc [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org] *On Behalf Of *Federer
> Fanatic
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:02 AM
> *To:* KWLUG discussion
> *Subject:* Re: [kwlug-disc] Having trouble with some Dell Precision T5600
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> It's not posting and this after NOT changing bios settings.
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>  Roger Federer Fanatic Extraordinaire :-)
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> On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:26 AM Stuart Seeley <stuart at lowlevel.ca> wrote:
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> 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...
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> Stuart
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> > On Jan 9, 2019, at 9:44 PM, Federer Fanatic <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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