[mythtv-users] Hardware death - CPU vs motherboard?

[Allen Edwards]

On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 6:23 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <jyavenard at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/10/24 Leen de Braal <ldb at braha.nl>:
> stions?  My wife and kids are missing DVR. :(
> >
> > First try resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery, wait an hour and
> > put it back, then reboot. Had a Dell doing this to me, resetting bios
> > solved it.
>
> Why wait an hour, when shortening the pin of the battery holder for 5s
> will achieve the same goal?
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I have had this happen I think 6 times.  The first three times I took the
machine down to a pro and he basically did what you did but then tried a
good CPU at which point we got a new MB and that fixed it.  More recently, I
strip everything out and put the MB/CPU/Case/PS in the attic and get another
one.  The point is, even a pro will just do what you did and substitute
parts until it works.  I also tried resetting the BIOS but that never
worked.

Allen
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