[GLLUG] hardware problems....anyone seen this?

[C. Ulrich]

FWIW I have a dodgy laptop that, for whatever reason, loses all BIOS settings
(but not time) whenever Linux restarts the machine. Everything is fine if it's
simply halted. No problems under Windows, even. It started doing this with the
2.4 kernel series. Problem doesn't seem to be linked to APM either, if I
recall. Your problem sounds a bit different, but maybe see if there's any
difference on your machine between halting and rebooting.

--Charles Ulrich

Sean wrote:
> Sounds like a bad battery, is the time coming up correctly in CMOS? 
> 
> 
> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Dylan Misenheimer wrote:
> 
> 
>>one of my boxes won't POST unless i reset the CMOS with the jumper on 
>>the MB.
>>after i do that i'll work fine, untill it's shutdown again.  when it 
>>starts back
>>up, it won't POST.  the only way i can get it to is to, once again, 
>>switch the
>>jumper to clear the CMOS, and restart.  any ideas?  anyone run into this 
>>before?
>> i imagine it's a simple mistake on my part, tho i've played around with 
>>all of
>>the CMOS settings.  don't know what to do.
>>
>>thanks
>>dylan
>>
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