Now the desktop has died. Won't boot past the BIOS screen. I hope it is just the CMOS battery. I'll pick up one today and find out easily enough.
The latch on the laptop is worse, so I accidentally shut it off three times yesterday. Time for some duct tape. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Ha!
I found that the most common cause of motherboard problems are related to leaky capacitors. In most cases these caps are easy to recognize -- the top looks like a dome.
ReplyDeleteI checked them out and didn't see anything. I always give computers the good old sniff test when I open them to make sure I've not let the magic smoke out.
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