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Hello my lovelies, I have a very strange issue with this laptop. It has 4GB's of RAM hard soldered onto the MOBO. I haven't tested it yet due to "the main issue".
Here we go: When I turn it on, it pauses for what can be up to 5 minutes or more then it will either COMMENCE actually booting up into either Windows or whatever bootable thing is inserted in the USB or into the BIOS. "normally"....sometimes it will boot as it should and when it does it's nice and fast. It boots perfectly into Windows and all is good, especially as I have just upgraded it for a customer of mine with a new Crucial 8GB RAM chip Crucial SSD. It's a veritable rocket now...AFTER IT DECIDES IT'S READY TO BOOT.
Here is another particularly interesting thing about it. When I am in the BIOS, there are very frequent lock-up in the BIOS. Moving between the options is impossible until it unfreezes and also making any changes will cause it to freeze for 30 seconds or so, then the change is registered/made/displayed....I have never seen this behaviour before.
I am thinking that it could be an issue with the CMOS chip or the hard wired RAM chip and I fear the worst.
Do any of you smashers have any opinions on what could be wrong?
I have now tested the RAM with memtest86 and it passed.
**Update. It looks like it was a very discharged CMOS battery. It was down to 1V off load...I do actually think the logic in the BIOS is powered by the CMOS battery. It running slow was fascinating. Who would have thought it. With a new battery it seems fine now.
Here we go: When I turn it on, it pauses for what can be up to 5 minutes or more then it will either COMMENCE actually booting up into either Windows or whatever bootable thing is inserted in the USB or into the BIOS. "normally"....sometimes it will boot as it should and when it does it's nice and fast. It boots perfectly into Windows and all is good, especially as I have just upgraded it for a customer of mine with a new Crucial 8GB RAM chip Crucial SSD. It's a veritable rocket now...AFTER IT DECIDES IT'S READY TO BOOT.
Here is another particularly interesting thing about it. When I am in the BIOS, there are very frequent lock-up in the BIOS. Moving between the options is impossible until it unfreezes and also making any changes will cause it to freeze for 30 seconds or so, then the change is registered/made/displayed....I have never seen this behaviour before.
I am thinking that it could be an issue with the CMOS chip or the hard wired RAM chip and I fear the worst.
Do any of you smashers have any opinions on what could be wrong?
I have now tested the RAM with memtest86 and it passed.
**Update. It looks like it was a very discharged CMOS battery. It was down to 1V off load...I do actually think the logic in the BIOS is powered by the CMOS battery. It running slow was fascinating. Who would have thought it. With a new battery it seems fine now.
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