Re: [Hampshire] [OT] ? CPU problem?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisi" <hantslug@???>
To: <hampshire@???>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:28 PM
Subject: [Hampshire] [OT] ? CPU problem?


> The last three times I have booted I have had the following error message:
> <quote>
> CPU is unworkable or has been changed
>
> Press F1 to continue.
> </quote>
>
> I have stopped closing down over-night in case the next boot should
> actually
> fail. (I had the problem, rebooted without pressing F1 to see if it
> happened
> again and Lenny loaded without a problem. And I shutdown overnight again
> because I forgot not to do so.
>
> But I have since left it running. Which it seems to do quite happily.
>
> Nothing has changed. And the CPU is obviously not totally unworkable.
>
> I Googled and most of what I found simply did not apply, but I found one
> which
> did apply and said:
>
> <quote> it maybe that the small battery on your motherboard is coming to
> the
> end of its life, and its forgotton some of the settings. You can easily
> replace this.</quote>
>
> So - is this good advice?
>
> TIA
> Lisi
>

Yep - I'd say so. I once had a PC that had a similar error message (can't
quite remember what it said but it sounded fairly catastrophic) and in hope
I rebooted and got a different error, then rebooted again and got a "hit f1
to continue" and from then on it worked like a dream.

The only other point to make is that (even if you hand built your system)
the mobo could've been sitting on a shelf somewhere for a couple of years
before it saw any use - but all that time it would have been draining the
battery - akin to a digital watch in a basement somewhere in Argos!

Cheers
Rob