That usually only affects time keeping, at least that I have noticed. When the board has AC going to it, the battery should be irrelavent. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Perry Hoekstra" <dutchman at uswest.net> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 9:18 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Dead computer > Miller, John wrote: > > > I got up this morning and turned on my computer and nothing happened, > > not even the fan on the p/s turned on. I swapped out the power supply > > with another that I had and still nothing. I took the original p/s and > > plugged it in and turned it on (I had it connected to an old pc switch), > > nothing. I remember reading a thread on a similar subject about p/s's > > and whether they could run with out a mb. My question is this. I have > > a mb laying around, it has a cpu and memory on it. If I plugged a p/s > > into it and turned it on, would that be enough to get the p/s working > > (provided it does work)? Could this be a result of age (the computer > > and mb are old (Cyrix 200 and AOpen 5A)) > > > I believe one thread also brought up the possibility that the > motherboard battery could be dead. > > -- > Perry Hoekstra > E-Commerce Architect > Talent Software Services > perry.hoekstra at talentemail.com > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >