{"id":4652,"date":"2018-01-05T09:27:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2018-01-05T09:35:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:35:01","slug":"more-to-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"More to Tell…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd now, the rest of the story\u2026<\/em>\u201d ~ Paul Harvey<\/p>\n

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My “big” PC<\/p><\/div>\n

My 10+ year old main office PC (computer) with WIN10 has been giving me problems. I had a hard drive failure which was the boot drive. Fixed it and was running great, better than ever, but suddenly, earlier today, the whole dang PC went south. Fans run, and I have 12 and 5 volts, but mother board is dead. No video at all.<\/p>\n

Looks like I must get a new one. Feeling much sorrow, grief and despair. Started to study what it would take to replace my old friend, browsing the Internet with my Linux Box \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Midnight, I went to bed. Then my mind clicked on. Good place and time to think.<\/p>\n

I had looked at the boot ROM (EPROM actually) battery on the computer MB and told myself I should check it. It is buried deep inside on the MB under all the SATA cables and other wiring. A near impossible place to access.<\/p>\n

In bed I realized I hadn\u2019t done that simple check. Got up and went back to the torn apart computer and pulled the battery. Should be 3 volts. On my Fluke, no load, it measured 3.3 volts. Cr*p, that\u2019s good. So, I put it back in. Of course, pulling it cleared all the boot ROM setup. I pushed the start button and HOLY CR*P! It\u2019s booting! OMG! and a few other excited exclamations.<\/p>\n

F1 key put me into the Boot setup menu, so I reconfigured the MB boot ROM setup. Then it resumed a normal start. But\u2026<\/p>\n

This was a very long restart. Then I saw the truth. The boot failure occurred during a WIN10 AUTO UPGRADE REBOOT!<\/p>\n

What I had seen when I came to my computer earlier in the day, was it had stopped at the mother board ROM boot splash screen. It never does that<\/span>. When I hit reset, the screen went blank and the computer quit working completely. Only the fans were running.<\/p>\n

WIN 10 had snuck in while I was away, did an upgrade, and tried to reboot the computer. It finished the install when it rebooted after my battery test. I watched the usual juggling balls and upgrade percentages tick off.<\/p>\n

The battery may have had a flakey connection in its holder and my removal\/insertion fixed it, or WIN 10 is the evil monster I have always thought it was. Ha!  (I can laugh now. My computer works again\u2026 )<\/p>\n

What a great new year week I have been having\u2026  1:10 AM\u2026 back to bed now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAnd now, the rest of the story\u2026\u201d ~ Paul Harvey My 10+ year old main office PC (computer) with WIN10 has been giving me problems. I had a hard drive failure which was the boot drive. Fixed it and was running great, better than ever, but suddenly, earlier today, the whole dang PC went south. Fans run, and I have 12 and 5 volts, but mother board is dead. No video at all. Looks like...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[28,96,179],"class_list":["post-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computersoftware","tag-computer","tag-sofware","tag-win10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}