• appetizer@lemmy.today
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    10 hours ago

    I have a motherboard in a state where it won’t boot unless you pull and reinsert the cmos battery. After this it will boot exactly once.

    It will also boot without issue if you don’t have a cmos battery at all. This is obviously not ideal.

    I wonder if these issues are related? I purchased the motherboard second hand in this state about a year ago. So it is far too early for this update, but it remains a mystery.

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      3 hours ago

      I had something kiind of similar once, where it would only boot after trying to boot once, letting it run a bit in idle, and then rebooting where it would actually succeed. Turned out I forgot to put the clear cmos jumper back to neutral after i reset cmos.

      So my best guess (other than new battery) is check the jumpers maybe