Re: [Hampshire] [HARDWARE] Dead PC

On 11 January 2011 19:43, Adam John Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 Jan 2011 19:24:57 Jonathan Hudson wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 19:14:36 +0000
>>
>> Adam John Trickett <adam.trickett@???> wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I have two near identical Digital Network UK desktop systems bought in
>> > 2005. Mine gets used more than the other and has been reliable up until
>> > the last few days, when it has started to behave oddly.
>> >
>> > 1) It would sometimes bring up the BIOS page complaining about changed
>> > settings (that have not changed) on power up.
>>
>> BIOS battery needs replacing ...
>
> A "CR2032" according to the manual. I know that would cause the boot problems,
> could it also cause the hardware freezes?
>

It should not cause hardware freezes, but if the wrong settings are
actually being set, e.g. memory speed etc, then this could cause
hardware freezes.
The BIOS is supposed to protect you from these affects, but it might
have a bug and not doing enough checks during boot up.