NickCat11
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-Dell Inspiron Desktop
-Intel Pentium Dual Core
-1 gig of Memory
-500 gig Hard Drive
-Windows XP MCE
The computer upon start would ask for the date and time before it hit Windows and sometimes would not boot at all. I replaced the CMOS battery, fixed the settings, and everything seemed fine. The non-boot problem disappeared. I ran it for a whole day with no issues. As a precaution I checked everything. Ran memtest on memory, good. Checked power supply, good. Hard Drive, good. The only thing I didn't check was the chip. When I left for the night I unplugged the power from the back only to come in the next morning and find out the machine won't boot again. So I was stumped. I threw in another CMOS battery and that worked. The computer fired right up. I turned it off and on a half a dozen times with no issue. My next step was to unplug the power cord from the back. I did this, left it off for a few minutes, plugged it back in and then tried to power on with no luck. So that's where I'm at.
I then checked the chip, reapplied thermal paste, although it was already fine but I just wanted to make sure. Swapped out the power supply, still the same issue when unplugging the machine. Any suggestions?
-Intel Pentium Dual Core
-1 gig of Memory
-500 gig Hard Drive
-Windows XP MCE
The computer upon start would ask for the date and time before it hit Windows and sometimes would not boot at all. I replaced the CMOS battery, fixed the settings, and everything seemed fine. The non-boot problem disappeared. I ran it for a whole day with no issues. As a precaution I checked everything. Ran memtest on memory, good. Checked power supply, good. Hard Drive, good. The only thing I didn't check was the chip. When I left for the night I unplugged the power from the back only to come in the next morning and find out the machine won't boot again. So I was stumped. I threw in another CMOS battery and that worked. The computer fired right up. I turned it off and on a half a dozen times with no issue. My next step was to unplug the power cord from the back. I did this, left it off for a few minutes, plugged it back in and then tried to power on with no luck. So that's where I'm at.
I then checked the chip, reapplied thermal paste, although it was already fine but I just wanted to make sure. Swapped out the power supply, still the same issue when unplugging the machine. Any suggestions?
