01-11-16 13:17 Holger Granholm wrote to Ed Vance about Re: Weird#2
Howdy! Holger, GM,

 HG> @MSGID: <569587D0.14679.windowsa@capcity2.synchro.net>
 HG> In a message on Monday 01-07-16 Ed Vance said to All:

 HG> GE Ed,

 EV> I can't remember if this computer ever Beeped when I've turned it
 EV> On.

 HG> Some do, others don't. There is often a setting in either the BIOS, or
 HG> in your case XP, that may be set on/off.

Thanks, I'll have a look at the BIOS to see if that is an option on Start Up.

 EV> I've wondered if the Button Battery on the Motherboard may be the
 EV> trouble maker?

 HG> As long as the time on the clock is correct, and date is correct, when
 HG> you start up, the culprit is not the battery.

I was "thinking" even if that battery was dead I would see the Time and Date
would have the correct settings when I turned the power On, because it would
be updated before I saw the Desktop due to the pc getting its Clock set
through the signal passed to it from the NTP Servers.

For several days last week I couldn't use the pc because it wouldn't complete
POST.

I'd only see the CPU Name on the screen but the next line telling me how much
Memory it has never showed up.
I even left the pc On for several hours at times and never saw anything on
the Monitor after it showed me the CPU's name.    PC=1   Ed=0

Sunday night I unplugged everything connected to the pc and tried starting
it up with only the Keyboard, PS/2 Mouse and Monitor connected to it,
and it finished POST.

So I turned the pc Off before the OS was loaded and connected the CAT-5 cable
to it, then turned it on again.

I finally got Logged On and grabbed a .QWK Packet and my Email and shut it
Off for the night.

I haven't tried adding any other cables to it since Sunday and it still is
powering up O.K. so I thought I'd write a message to You about why I've been
absent since I wrote my messages on January 7th.

Hopefully I'll find what cable was causing my problems when I start
re-connecting all the wires, one at a time, to see if I can find the Trouble
Maker.

Thanks for the help!

73

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