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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> kwlug-disc [mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Federer Fanatic<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 10, 2019 8:02 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> KWLUG discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [kwlug-disc] Having trouble with some Dell Precision T5600<o:p></o:p></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">stuart@lowlevel.ca</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></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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> Any thoughts?<br>
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