Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:29:19 +0300 From: Apatewna <apatewna@yahoo.gr> To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time problems Message-ID: <460FCFCF.9020500@yahoo.gr> In-Reply-To: <460EE3D0.3020702@u.washington.edu> References: <460BB75B.3080504@diomedia.be> <44slbl4gqf.fsf@Lowell-Desk.lan> <460EE3D0.3020702@u.washington.edu>
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O/H Garrett Cooper έγραψε: > Some vendors are lame too and ship motherboards with dead batteries (or > the voltage in them dissipates over time because of parasitic impedances > in the area). > -Garrett As a field service tech, I am advising all people on the list that there is a high probability for 2-3 year old desktop machines to have a CMOS battery failure. I started getting service calls on P4-2Gigs and above just a month ago and also my AthlonXP 2600+ machine (motherboard bought in end of 2004) had a battery failure. At one instance I had to replace a battery on a P4-3G that had been put out of operation for a month (totally unplugged from mains power). Also, stop stocking CR2032 batteries from broken motherboards, they are either already failed or nearly at end of life. Always use new spares. -- RTFM and STFW before anything bad happens _________________________________________ Thanasis Rizoulis Electronic Computing Systems Engineer Larissa, Greece FreeBSD/PCBSD user
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