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- >From: Greg Bruno <gregb@amazon.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 08:00:44 -0800
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- From: gregb@AMAZON.SANDIEGO.NCR.COM
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- > Dave Bloomberg writes:
- >
- > It has been our experience that most of our PC's have been solid
- > performers for 4-5 years w/o incident. When things go bad, it
- > has been mostly hard drives; and chips on the highly integrated
- > motherboards that require outside service.
-
- I just read an article that says after about 5 years the battery that runs
- CMOS RAM dies. Some symptoms are faulty hard disks. So all you have to do
- is replace the battery, reset the configuration and you're back in business.
- I've never done this before, but it sounds like something to try before you
- spend big dollars sending the PC outside for service.
-
- Greg Bruno
- gregb@amazon.sandiego.ncr.com
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