OK this is a WTF moment my laptop display quit working so it got opened it up and reseated everything except the CMOS battery and it didn't work, so i opened it up again and in the proses i lost the original CMOS so a new one got stuck into the laptop and it works now! so did the new battery fix the issue and if so could a dead CMOS battery be the cause of the "dead" displays on some of the laptops that i repair at work?
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Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
"Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me
Excuse me while i do something dangerous
You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.
Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore
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Re: bad cmos battery = no display?
I doubt that the battery removal did anything but reset the motherboards' BIOS settings to default. Perhaps the bios had become corrupted and could not POST because of that ? A CMOS reset was perhaps all it needed.Originally posted by goontron View Post -
Re: bad cmos battery = no display?
ok thats what i thought thx for the answer.Things I've fixed: anything from semis to crappy Chinese $2 radios, and now an IoT Dildo....
"Dude, this is Wyoming, i hopped on and sent 'er. No fucking around." -- Me
Excuse me while i do something dangerous
You must have a sad, sad boring life if you hate on people harmlessly enjoying life with an animal costume.
Sometimes you need to break shit to fix it.... Thats why my lawnmower doesn't have a deadman switch or engine brake anymore
Follow the white rabbit.Comment
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Re: bad cmos battery = no display?
You are welcome.. For related interest.. I just got a desktop in that the guy had removed a third party graphics card from because it failed. He tried using the motherboard's onboard VGA but it would not boot, so he brought it in.Originally posted by goontron View Post
Of course, the BIOS was set on using the seperate card and had no fall-back setting to use the onboard if the seperate card was missing.
A BIOS (CMOS) reset did the trick.Comment
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