<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:25 AM Charles McColm <<a href="mailto:charlesm@theworkingcentre.org">charlesm@theworkingcentre.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">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). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:02 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kwlug-disc] Having trouble with some Dell Precision T5600<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It's not posting and this after NOT changing bios settings.<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 12:26 AM Stuart Seeley <<a href="mailto:stuart@lowlevel.ca" target="_blank">stuart@lowlevel.ca</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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...<br>
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> On Jan 9, 2019, at 9:44 PM, Federer Fanatic <<a href="mailto:nafdef@gmail.com" target="_blank">nafdef@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Hi, Just curious if anyone knows of a Dell expert that truly understands<br>
> the nuances of Dell hardward with respect to the machine I mentioned<br>
> in the subject line. The problem I am having is the machine don't boot<br>
> consistently, i.e., sometimes the bios comes up other times nothing happens.<br>
> My suspicision is the Dells are sensitive to the power coming into them<br>
> that causes them to "sleep"--not sure what the terminology is.<br>
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