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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
Windows XP won't boot successfully (BSOD) on the
old Latitude E6400 Both onboard and DVD diagnostics find Error Code 0600-5127 CABLE - RTC battery was not detected under cable tests. The CMOS stuff otherwise seems to be working correctly. System time and date in BIOS are good, all the pre-boot things work right, and it boots fine to diagnostics from the CD drive. But XP won't boot with whatever the problem is. It starts its display and then BSOD's. Guesses? I'll order a battery but it doesn't look like a dead battery is the problem. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
Ron Hardin wrote:
Windows XP won't boot successfully (BSOD) on the old Latitude E6400 Both onboard and DVD diagnostics find Error Code 0600-5127 CABLE - RTC battery was not detected under cable tests. The CMOS stuff otherwise seems to be working correctly. System time and date in BIOS are good, all the pre-boot things work right, and it boots fine to diagnostics from the CD drive. But XP won't boot with whatever the problem is. It starts its display and then BSOD's. Guesses? I'll order a battery but it doesn't look like a dead battery is the problem. I tried the repair console from the XP DVD, and ran through chkdsk /r, fixmbr, fixboot, with no improvement. But the machine itself seems to do all that okay. Maybe the diagnostic fault is just a nothing problem unrelated to not booting XP without BSOD. Right now it's trying a repair installation and seems to be going okay at it. Question, it seems to be using existing drivers (the video quality is good, wifi light comes on, etc). Do I reinstall the Dell drivers or are they already there after a repair install? Assuming it comes up of course. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
Ron Hardin wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote: Windows XP won't boot successfully (BSOD) on the old Latitude E6400 Both onboard and DVD diagnostics find Error Code 0600-5127 CABLE - RTC battery was not detected under cable tests. The CMOS stuff otherwise seems to be working correctly. System time and date in BIOS are good, all the pre-boot things work right, and it boots fine to diagnostics from the CD drive. But XP won't boot with whatever the problem is. It starts its display and then BSOD's. Guesses? I'll order a battery but it doesn't look like a dead battery is the problem. I tried the repair console from the XP DVD, and ran through chkdsk /r, fixmbr, fixboot, with no improvement. But the machine itself seems to do all that okay. Maybe the diagnostic fault is just a nothing problem unrelated to not booting XP without BSOD. Right now it's trying a repair installation and seems to be going okay at it. Question, it seems to be using existing drivers (the video quality is good, wifi light comes on, etc). Do I reinstall the Dell drivers or are they already there after a repair install? Assuming it comes up of course. It seems to work without installing any Dell drivers. IE was broken (I guess from having IE8 components and SP3's IE6 repair reinstallation). To recover from that use www.wsusoffline.net version 9.2.1. Once IE8 is working, then you can get to windows update. Lesson, get a USB stick of wsusoffline for XP. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
On Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 11:13:58 AM UTC-4, Ron Hardin wrote:
Ron Hardin wrote: Ron Hardin wrote: Windows XP won't boot successfully (BSOD) on the old Latitude E6400 Both onboard and DVD diagnostics find Error Code 0600-5127 CABLE - RTC battery was not detected under cable tests. The CMOS stuff otherwise seems to be working correctly. System time and date in BIOS are good, all the pre-boot things work right, and it boots fine to diagnostics from the CD drive. But XP won't boot with whatever the problem is. It starts its display and then BSOD's. Guesses? I'll order a battery but it doesn't look like a dead battery is the problem. I tried the repair console from the XP DVD, and ran through chkdsk /r, fixmbr, fixboot, with no improvement. But the machine itself seems to do all that okay. Maybe the diagnostic fault is just a nothing problem unrelated to not booting XP without BSOD. Right now it's trying a repair installation and seems to be going okay at it. Question, it seems to be using existing drivers (the video quality is good, wifi light comes on, etc). Do I reinstall the Dell drivers or are they already there after a repair install? Assuming it comes up of course. It seems to work without installing any Dell drivers. IE was broken (I guess from having IE8 components and SP3's IE6 repair reinstallation). To recover from that use www.wsusoffline.net version 9.2.1. Once IE8 is working, then you can get to windows update. Lesson, get a USB stick of wsusoffline for XP. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. Ron, I would still reinstall all the drivers, starting with the Intel chipset, then reboot, then all the rest (audio, Ethernet, video, wifi) without an intervening reboot. Then a final reboot. |
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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
I would still reinstall all the drivers, starting with the Intel chipset, then reboot, then
all the rest (audio, Ethernet, video, wifi) without an intervening reboot. Then a final reboot. Any reason? I mean it seems to be working okay. I can do it if something seems to be broken later. I'm surprised this worked. I guess it was just a HD scribble, but so long as the drivers link in right (I guess by name or registry or something?) they'd not likely be scribbled too. Aside: Installing drivers always struck me as hit or miss anyway. The Dell driver disk would check off stuff that you don't have, and miss stuff that you do have, so you sort of loaded things until it worked after guessing. The online advice is dumbed down to the point of uselessness, like this utility makes the machine work better. I only load from the drivers tab, not from the mysterious utilities tab or anything, which tab always seemed to get me in trouble. Anyway it's unpleasant enough, in terms of not knowing what actually is needed, that I avoid it if things are working. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 6:32:25 AM UTC-4, Ron Hardin wrote:
I would still reinstall all the drivers, starting with the Intel chipset, then reboot, then all the rest (audio, Ethernet, video, wifi) without an intervening reboot. Then a final reboot. Any reason? I mean it seems to be working okay. I can do it if something seems to be broken later. I'm surprised this worked. I guess it was just a HD scribble, but so long as the drivers link in right (I guess by name or registry or something?) they'd not likely be scribbled too. Aside: Installing drivers always struck me as hit or miss anyway. The Dell driver disk would check off stuff that you don't have, and miss stuff that you do have, so you sort of loaded things until it worked after guessing. The online advice is dumbed down to the point of uselessness, like this utility makes the machine work better. I only load from the drivers tab, not from the mysterious utilities tab or anything, which tab always seemed to get me in trouble. Anyway it's unpleasant enough, in terms of not knowing what actually is needed, that I avoid it if things are working. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. Well, look at the devices in Device Manager. Start - Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device Manager If any of the devices has either a yellow exclamation point or a red X next to it, device driver(s) need to be installed. And, if that is the case, install the Intel chipset driver before anything else, and reboot to finish installing drivers... Ben Myers |
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Latitude E6400 Cable - RTC Battery was not detected
Ben Myers wrote:
Well, look at the devices in Device Manager. Start - Control Panel - System - Hardware tab - Device Manager If any of the devices has either a yellow exclamation point or a red X next to it, device driver(s) need to be installed. And, if that is the case, install th Good tip, thanks. There are a couple for hardware I don't have so I'll ignore them. I really only use the machine as a CPU server in the winter (free electricity since it heats the house). So long as wifi and Cygwin work, it's good. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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