[ale] OT: Diagnosing HW problem

[Michael Hirsch]

On 6/14/05, John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com> wrote:
> Chris Fowler said:
> >
> >> I think you might have misunderstood me...the system itself is one I
> >> built
> >> over three years ago and has been rock solid the entire time.  I
> >> recently
> >> added the additional hard drive (which was a source of my emails last
> >> week), but the rebooting and freeze problems have started occurring the
> >> last week.  So...it's either somehow weirdly being caused by the new
> >> hard
> >> drive (which I can remove and still get the problems, so I doubt it) or
> >> it's something else.  My money is on the motherboard.
> >>
> > When you installed the new HDD did you wear a grounding strap?
> 
> Nope...know I should have.  But I did touch a metal part of the case to
> try to discharge as much as possible.

After a few years I always begin to suspect the CMOS battery on the
motherboard.  When they go all kinds of weird things start happening.

Michael