Computer hardware question

[Fastdruid]

I am not am expert but I think he means CMOS on the motherboard.
I stand to be corrected though.

Motherboards have a backup battery. Coin style mostly some older ones had soldered in ones.

The information about your hardware disk drives , DVD ,CD and such like are stored so it will boot quicker. So if battery goes flat it often defaults to default......BUT if that has become corrupt it might not boot at all.

Hope that helps.

Yes, sorry assumed knowledge and all. Fine line sometimes between teaching someone to suck eggs and confusing the hell out of them for using IT lingo that makes no sense to someone who's not messed about with them!

 

[AVI_8]

Ah thanks, I’ve located it, there’s a jumper between 6 and 4 also 5 and 3
Should I leave the 5 and 3 in place while moving the 6 and 4 to 4 and 2
I’ve removed the battery for 5 mins also, presumably it needs to be reinstalled to reset this

 

[AVI_8]

Fastdruid
That worked, thanks so much, I’d never have known to do that, next stop was going to be a pc repair centre

 

[ukracer]

Fastdruid
That worked, thanks so much, I’d never have known to do that, next stop was going to be a pc repair centre

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And that would not have been worth getting money.

 

[ukracer]

Yes, sorry assumed knowledge and all. Fine line sometimes between teaching someone to suck eggs and confusing the hell out of them for using IT lingo that makes no sense to someone who's not messed about with them!

Yep. I am better on the old 86 and 286 to be honest. Lol
I just never kept up with the tech.

I used to build PC' but I used to get the punters money after I delivered it. Never took a penny for building them it was a hobby for me. But I could never afford 2 grand to practice with....if anything went wrong. (Only fried one mother board) it just went back to the shop and Phil returned it under warranty.
Phil had a computer shop. He made money out of what I built but I had cheap parts off him or freebies.

It's pretty much the same now but with new stuff like SS boards and newer processors I just can't keep up with. Lol so I gave up trying as every man and his dog could build stuff with the likes of Scan and Morgan Computers around.


Now I have to ask everyone else for advise.

But back to my initial reply....when we first had PC's on fire stations IT was as far apart from training department and I was often on the turntable ladder or hydraulic platform and so I voted do training on the PC,s.
I devised a questionnaire that started with can you switch a PC on.
2. Describe your action.
3. Do you know what a mouse is.

4
5
..

35 .what does Cntrl Alt Delete do.

With a vast array of strange questions that meant something to those who KNEW what I was asking.

I rarely ended up speaking down to anyone ,as I knew roughly what their level was at before I went and tailored my package to that firefighter.

To be honest it was basic basic stuff at the start. They soon took it off me when they saw it was working. Lol

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

I am not am expert but I think he means CMOS on the motherboard.
I stand to be corrected though.

Motherboards have a backup battery. Coin style mostly some older ones had soldered in ones.

The information about your hardware disk drives , DVD ,CD and such like are stored so it will boot quicker. So if battery goes flat it often defaults to default......BUT if that has become corrupt it might not boot at all.

Hope that helps.

Had to pull the battery on an old rig I rebuilt a few weeks back.
Wouldn't recognise usb kB/m so couldn't get into bios to select boot source. Reset to default and away I went.

Couldn't find my PS2 adapter anywhere.

 

[fzr phil]

there's a blast from the past, hadn't heard of morgan computers for a while.
scan are still going actually, checked them out recently,
glad you got up and running
phil

 

[Fastdruid]

Fastdruid
That worked, thanks so much, I’d never have known to do that, next stop was going to be a pc repair centre

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Worth now trying the video card again. May have just been something preventing it from booting rather than an issue with the card.

 

[AVI_8]

Yep that was with the video card plugged in.

 

[mdubash]

I'd say that 2GB of RAM is barely enough to get Windows booted these days, let alone run any programs. I'd buy a couple of 4GB RAM modules (optimum) or 2 x 2GB (minimum). It'll run much faster.

 

[gaz1]

I'd say that 2GB of RAM is barely enough to get Windows booted these days, let alone run any programs. I'd buy a couple of 4GB RAM modules (optimum) or 2 x 2GB (minimum). It'll run much faster.

2gb is more than ample well is on my system and im a really heavy user

though im using win7

4gb is better

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

2gb is more than ample well is on my system and im a really heavy user

though im using win7

4gb is better

32 and that's enough. I was maxing out 16 on occasion. Big software samplers

 

[ukracer]

I'd say that 2GB of RAM is barely enough to get Windows booted these days, let alone run any programs. I'd buy a couple of 4GB RAM modules (optimum) or 2 x 2GB (minimum). It'll run much faster.

Depends what the OP is doing with it.

 

[AVI_8]

I'd say that 2GB of RAM is barely enough to get Windows booted these days, let alone run any programs. I'd buy a couple of 4GB RAM modules (optimum) or 2 x 2GB (minimum). It'll run much faster.

The graphics card is 2 GB, the main board had 6 GB ram 4+2
Last night now that I’ve got it working I ordered 4x4 GB Ram and a solid state hard drive from Mr Memory, used them recently to upgrade my laptop and it totally transformed it. So yeh hopefully 16 GB should be good for what my wife will use it for, mainly surfing web, basic word processing and running the software for her embroidery machines.

 

[mdubash]

Ah, right, sorry, I misunderstood.