Question for Paul

Astropher wrote:
On 2015-01-19 11:08:43 +1100, VanguardLH said:


Seems a CMOS battery replacement is a cheap diagnosis step.

It appears that it was the CMOS battery. I replaced the battery a
couple of days ago, and today the machine was powered down with the AC
disconnected for 12 hours. It started up again properly without delay.

Thanks.


Weird. And thanks for posting back. +1 for VanguardLH.
And another item for the "big book of busted hardware" :-)
Where we learn by remote observations.

Paul

On 2015-01-23 09:51:04 +1100, Paul said:

Weird. And thanks for posting back. +1 for VanguardLH.
And another item for the "big book of busted hardware" :-)
Where we learn by remote observations.

It is pretty selfish not to follow through by posting back results.

By strange coincidence, this week a friend emailed about how his
computer was taking a long time to power up. It exhibited pretty much
the same symptoms as mine. I know he has a relatively new power supply
and It is also a Gigabyte motherboard. I will post the resuts when he
eventually gets around to replacing his battery.