From: "Ed Durrant" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 06:51:05 +1100
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Subject: OT: Shuttle problem WAS:(Re: [OS2Wireless] eCS install of a new NIC)
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J R FOX wrote:
>   In the meantime, I have a more immediate 
> problem.  (This veers well OT, but with your indulgence I thought I 
> might draw upon the wisdom to be found here.)  I've been intending 
> to make Shuttle XPC #2 (AMD 6400 dual core, 4 meg.s Ram, a 9800 GT 
> video card) my 'Go To' machine, replacing an older single-core P4 
> based Shuttle.  But it is down for the count just now.  I had been 
> having some problems booting -- nothing coming up on the monitor -- 
> and at first I was thinking in terms of some video issue, either 
> with the video card or the monitor.  But now I am thinking it is 
> neither.  When I tried to boot it up last night, I briefly got a 
> static screen from the BIOS that mentioned a CMOS checksum error, 
> and going into "Safe Mode." Note that this is pre-OS, so we're 
> _not_ talking about the Safe Mode of Windoze.  Attempts to boot 
> it up again have not been successful.
>
> Electrical is still happening, so it's probably not the power 
> supply (?).  My first thought is towards something heat related. 
> I notice that the fan noise seems to be less than half of its 
> normal volume.  I will check the fan situation, but would welcome 
> other troubleshooting suggestions, particularly from anyone 
> familiar with the Shuttle line of small form factor computers. 
>
> I was about to slap one of those NIC cards in and move on to 
> the wireless stuff, re the Linksys router, but this is going to 
> be on hold for awhile (at least for this computer) until I get 
> this problem ironed out.
>
>
>  Jordan
>
>
>
>
>   
Hi Jordan,

If you can get into the BIOS setup set if you can clear the settings 
back to factory settings, if not, power off and see if there is a reset 
CMOS jumper on the motherboard and if not, remove the CMOS battery and 
leave it out for a few minutes before returning it.

This sounds like a CMOS data corruption problem to me.


-- 
Cheers/2

Ed

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