About a week ago the clock in my wife's computer became erratic. I figured it must be the button battery on the motherboard, and since my backup computer is identical and was purchased at the same time, I bought a couple of batteries.
I replaced the battery on my motherboard (mobo) without incident, but when I replaced Yumi's, something strange happened. When I shut down Windows 2000, the operating system began the process and then hung on a black screen. So I killed the machine by hitting the switch on the power supply.
I changed her battery, turned on the power supply switch, hit the front panel power button -- and nothing.
Huh? I checked all the connectors, tried again, and nothing.
I had an extra power supply, so I installed it, and again nothing. This was strange. The power LED on the mobo was lighting up, so it appeared to be getting power, but it would not boot.
With work pending, I ended up popping her hard disk into my old compter -- like I said, they were identical machines, so the switch went smoothly, and she was back in business.
We bought a "barebone kit" from NCIX to replace her lost machine, and I put it together and have been installing programs on it as time allowed over the last couple of days. It's a mATX mobo and case (smaller than the regular ATX), so Yumi is happy that it will take up less space under her desk than the tower case she's using now.
Still dunno why her old machine died, though....
Posted by Paul at September 16, 2005 08:29 PM