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Post nifty solutions here to pesky problems that you're especially satisfied with. I'll kick it off with this:
A few weeks ago, my gaming PC started rebooting at startup like there was a failed overclock recovery (it's an enthusiast motherboard) but only when it had been off for a few hours. Then, very intermittently, it would spontaneously reboot when just sitting on the Windows desktop doing nothing, sometimes twice a day, again that "overclock reboot" when it's not even overclocked anymore. Can't go on like this.
I suspected either a failing CMOS battery or failing motherboard since the PC is now 12 years old and well overdue for an upgrade. I wasn't getting any CMOS checksum errors however, which are typical of a failing battery, so it wasn't obviously the battery.
I booted into the BIOS and looked around: nothing to see, all normal. Rebooted with CTRL-ALT-DELETE, ie didn't save settings and it continued to work fine after that for about a week, when once more it rebooted while in Windows. I finally got round to changing that pesky CMOS battery which is quite old by now and it's been fine since. Still need to give it more time to be absolutely sure, but I think I nailed it. Note this wasn't the original CMOS battery, which I'd replaced long ago.
Hot tip: when changing the battery, do so with the PC running, that way the short power loss doesn't corrupt the settings. Flip it out with something plastic and be careful not to let the battery drop on the motherboard and possibly cause a short circuit.
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A few weeks ago, my gaming PC started rebooting at startup like there was a failed overclock recovery (it's an enthusiast motherboard) but only when it had been off for a few hours. Then, very intermittently, it would spontaneously reboot when just sitting on the Windows desktop doing nothing, sometimes twice a day, again that "overclock reboot" when it's not even overclocked anymore. Can't go on like this.
I suspected either a failing CMOS battery or failing motherboard since the PC is now 12 years old and well overdue for an upgrade. I wasn't getting any CMOS checksum errors however, which are typical of a failing battery, so it wasn't obviously the battery.
I booted into the BIOS and looked around: nothing to see, all normal. Rebooted with CTRL-ALT-DELETE, ie didn't save settings and it continued to work fine after that for about a week, when once more it rebooted while in Windows. I finally got round to changing that pesky CMOS battery which is quite old by now and it's been fine since. Still need to give it more time to be absolutely sure, but I think I nailed it. Note this wasn't the original CMOS battery, which I'd replaced long ago.
Hot tip: when changing the battery, do so with the PC running, that way the short power loss doesn't corrupt the settings. Flip it out with something plastic and be careful not to let the battery drop on the motherboard and possibly cause a short circuit.
This thread is the antedote to this one:
First world problems
In this thread, let's put our everyday first world problems into a little perspective. Post about the kind of niggly things that are absolutely trivial compared to the real problems in the world such as abject poverty in third world countries, war in Ukraine, destruction of homes and cities...
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