Take a close look at the capacitors on the motherboard. If they are bulging you can either replace them or the whole board. Walt On 10/11/2012 10:30 AM, John Stoffel wrote:
"Brett" == Brett Russ<bruss@alum.wpi.edu> writes:
Brett> Yes, I've done that several times. In fact, since my BIOS is Brett> having issues preserving settings and shows the CMOS checksum Brett> failure quite often, I usually have to revert to defaults just Brett> to boot. This, despite a brand new CMOS battery. This is the Brett> other symptom in my original email that I can't yet explain. Brett> But, if it ends up being a motherboard HW issue, then anything Brett> could go wrong including corrupted CMOS.
This points more to a low level hardware issue in the motherboard, or possibly the CPU. Hard to know. If it's old enough, it might be time to just replace it.
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