@@themrenerd7384 More sad the motherboard designers changed the design to relying on the a battery. Old motherboards don't have this problem, will boot even without the battery.
My PC died a couple of days ago, but had power to USB outlets, but no power on pressing the power button. I searched on Google and this video came up on you tube.. it has only gone and worked a peach!!! Many thanks Carey, you have saved me a trip to PC fixer and lots of down time.. keep safe and sincere thanks once again...
You are an angel! I was really on the verge of crying because my pc wouldn't turn on, I took it out and reassembled it piece by piece and nothing, never in a million years I would've thought of replacing the battery. You really made my day
Was about to strip out my tower a couple years back when I discovered it was an issue with the battery. Thank you Carey, you are the first person on you tube I have run across that has brought this to our attention.
You learn something every day, I almost threw away a whole system, before changing the BIOS battery! I have been building PCs for over 25 year, but never new that a dead BIOS battery will prevent the whole system from starting, thank you sir!
Carey, I just spent two days tearing down my PC and re-assembling it trying to fix this very same problem! Swapped CPUs, PSUs, RAM, naked boot, to no avail. Was just about to buy a new MB as that was the only thing I didn't have extra but decided to do one last look and I came across your video. Bloody hell!!! Of all the things to cause a dead PC! Bloody CMOS battery! Thanks a million for sharing this info. Needless to say, this fix or troubleshoot is not mentioned anywhere in the MB manual.....
I just got a new gaming PC and my 9 year old son began to desperately want a computer! Any computer! So I went in the garage and found our old PC. Guess what? This saved me a headache and after swapping out the battery on the motherboard, it worked!!! Thank you!
Gosh... I thought the problem with my computer was something very serious like CPU or PSU issue. I started to watch your video with very little hope, but still I replaced the battery as you demonstrated. That did the trick! Thank you very much, with all respect!
Carey, Gotta let you know I saved myself lots of uncertainty. My oldest win 7 pc usually on 24/7 which I'd just shut down for a dusting totally refused to do ANYTHING. I already replaced the PSU with a Seasonic 620W 80 Bronze bout 5 yrs ago when I was plagued with unending boot/reboot and inexplicable failures & file corruption. So while I did keep telling myself that it could'nt be the same problem, I just couldnt help thinking ... THAT dang PSU AGAIN!!! Then, I recalled seeing something on your channel some years ago bout a ridiculously quick & simple fix. AND indeed, it was exactly the m/b button battery .... been in use for ages and forgotten.... until now. Thanks much. Ian.
Very interesting. When I have had issues with an old computer no longer turning on and the fans don't spin, it has been the power supply. I assumed the system would boot if the power was plugged because that would supply the necessary power. The system would then lose the date and time each time the system was shut down. Always learning something new from you...thanks for the video.
My PC has been switching off and yesterday it wouldn't start at all. I've cleaned it, changed the CPU fan for a spare which did nothing, (I was thinking it was overheating)then priced a new power supply, CPU and mother board. And it turned to be that battery!! It never even crossed my mind. I'm so glad I seen this video before I spent a fortune 👌🏻👍🏻😀
I was frustrated from the morning as my pc was not powering up. At first I thought that my spike buster was at fault, so I went to the electrical store and bought a socket to see if it powers on through the board directly but to no avail. I was thinking of giving up and then I searched for "how to fix a computer which is not powering on?" and google showed the result, thankfully I watched your video. My PC has powered on, all thanx to you. So, Thank you you so much! 🍫
My desktop PC failed to power-up after a violent electrical storm...assumed to my horror it was fried. After watching your short video...went to Batteries +, bought and replaced the CR2032 battery ($6) on the motherboard...and wallah..PC booted-up just fine. Thank you a bunch for saving me $, time, and frustration.
You just saved my life man, $5000 racing simulator PC and my 50 cent battery was dead. Thank God!!! I love you bro!!!! It was working perfect last night.
Thanks so much. Was up most of last night after computer stopped running after a power outage. Gave it one last try this morning and was going to take it to a computer repair facility, but then I found your video. Changed the CMOS battery and it started right up. THANKS!!!!!!
Hey just wanted to say I could've spent a lot of money on a repair for my computer. Instead I spent next to nothing on a battery and this fixed my issue. Thanks a bunch for making the vid :)
Great video, love the close-up shots of taking battery out and installing new one. Especially nice giving the battery name, detailed oriented as always # banCarey
I once had the same problem with a friends' PC, she didn't have a spare battery so I used the one from my wrist watch! Yup, it worked, and she bought a pack of two batteries the next day and gave me back my battery plus a new one as a spare! I am not a PC expert, but spent 35 yrs as an auto-truck mechanic, and I always follow the golden rule: Start at the beginning, that means with the battery, when diagnosing electrical problems.
Exactly. In my experience, a dead battery just means that I have to manually input the date and time, at which point the machine then boots as usual. This is new to me.
I experienced this situation with a two year old Dell XPS 8700 computer. My computer has a switch in the back of the unit which you push and hold to test the power supply unit. If the light came on green, the PSU was good. If the light didn’t come on, the PSU was bad. My power supply was good, so today after blowing out the dust from inside the computer with a garden blower (in my backyard), I replaced the CR2032 battery. Thanks to your unselfish contributions, you just saved me $1000.00. Once again, thank you so much sir! When it comes to computers, you ARE the man!
Sir I Know it's pretty late but I just want to say thank you so much!! I was thinking I will bring my system to the repairs but after I watch this, I didn't hesitate to buy this battery. Guess what, it actually works!!! THANK You so much ! you deserve likes and I will sub to you too
Another excellent video by Mr. Holzman. My Carey Holzman inspired computer was built back in Dec 2013. My mobo is the Intel DH87MC. I got one of the last remaining Intel boards before they quit the motherboard business. The BIOS on mine is set at default with the only setting change is to recognize a faster RAM speed. So, when it's time to change a battery, hopefully, it will be quick and painless.
Reading the comments It's interesting to see what everyone's first thought would be, probably based off user experience on what they see the most, A PSU, the power switch,, I myself have often seen a system not power because someone had broken off part of a usb port so one of the pin's was grounding out the board.
I never knew this. I thought that the battery just provided power to store BIOS information and time when the system was unplugged. Never saw this before. All I ever saw from a bad bios battery was date, bios settings and time resetting or a message that says something like battery voltage low. Thanks for the great tip.
Very informative I have viewed your previous tutorials and bought a USB IDA + Sata however as you have said be systematic in fault finding and I've definitely learned this from watching your tutorials brilliant for someone like me Thanks Carey
I've been repairing computers for 28 years and I've never run into this, and probably never will, but interesting video. Just a lesson to never rule anything out, and I now have another thing to eliminate in the process of elimination with a "no-power-on" situation, after the power supply has been eliminated.
Thank you for this video! I have a server that is under 2 years old. The other day I shut it down to install a new hard drive and now it it wont turn on. Same as in the video. I checked all cables and changed the power supply and still nothing. I'm going to try the battery trick tonight. I sure hope this is it because otherwise I am taking the whole thing apart this weekend to test.
dude, thank you so much. you saved my ass just now. i came home and turned on my pc and it wasn't working and i needed it to work. good thing i had a spare unit lying around so i just took that and pulled out the battery from that and viola! thank you so much!
this guy carey, produces the best pc related content on youtube, if only those with the sponsored videos and free products actualy knew anything about pcs - other then building them, welcome to his channel
So here is my story..All credits goes to you. My computer was not turning on. I removed hard drive, ram , dvd , plugged out in litterly everything but my problem didn't solve. I watched your video and removed this battery and inserted again .. My pc turned on.. I will change it tomorrow. Thanks dude
This happened to me this morning. I was all set to buy a new motherboard but found this video. What I thought would cost me a few hundred only cost $4. Thank you.
THANK YOU!!!! I have pretty new laptops. But, have an older (2004) desktop. Which still use the same desktop for recording my music in my home studio. I finally started crapping out. I was getting worries I'd possibly lose everyhing. I backed up most of it. But then today my desktop wouldn't even fire up at all. Had an extra power cord and, some of the same new batteries I bought for my surround sound in the livingroom. Switched iut the power cord and battery. And boom...woked like a champ!
I've been working on PC's since I was old enough to hold a screwdriver and I would've NEVER thought the BIOS battery could cause a motherboard not to start. Insane that a company with the reputation like Compaq (we all know it's absolutely wonderful - lol) would use a board with that "feature." Also, how many people watching this video remember pci dial-up modems?
Memories of my second PC... The SR 1210NX What a piece of crap it was lol.. Helped me get comfortable working with hardware and was a step into eventually building my first PC in 2009.
CR 2032 battery. I'm a gonna try it. Along with checking fuse. I have an appx. 10 yr old Asus desktop which won't turn on anymore. Any safety issues with electric shock when fiddling around inside computer? Obviously all cords/power to wall disconnected. Thanks Carey.
I love your videos, your the first person who I have come across that says changing the CMOS battery could be a possible problem with a computer not starting.... I have a computer exhibiting the same issues, I will be pulling out my Multimeter and checking the volts on it. I will let you know what happens thanks again even if this does not fix my computer its one less possible thing that could be wrong.
I got a MSI MPG Z490 a I7 10700 and GSKILL ram. At the beginning everything went well but, after shutting my PC down and rebooting it five or six times, motherboard remained stationary on the logo MPG. I changed the SATA drive with a SSD drive but I had the same things. I installed RAM, HARD DRIVES, POWER SUPPLY on some others PCs and they worked well. Any idea about what it is preventing the complete boot?
Your amazing I've been troubleshooting for my pc since it wouldnt turn on and I only thought it was my power supply but after buying a new one and it not working I looked and found your video which saved my pc although my motherboard is only like 6 months old so I dont know how this battery was ruined
wow I didn't know that about Compaq/HP computer's. Good option to try if I run into a PC That Won't turn on! a while back I had the battery die in my main PC. only 2.5 years old at the time, which I found weird.
You just saved me a fortune Carey Holzman. You, and Google/TH-cam - today, July 7, 2020. I can't believe I've lived to see this day - when an old woman can discover and fix by herself a power-up problem on her eleven year old HP tower. YOU. ARE. AWESOME. PERIOD. NO HYPERBOLE. DON'T CARE HOW HACKNEYED 'AWESOME' IS.
For increased geek points I used a multimeter, i got it to tell me that the old battery was definitely dead and the newer one had more power, by looking at the voltage and the amps. older battery had under 3 volts and practically zero amps. Now I have a beep code 1 3 2 on my dell optiplex so soon I will be whole again as soon as i figure that out!
Is that an old school compaq with the Intel Alhena board made by ECS? I have the guts for one of those sitting on my floor. I did a retro build in it for the kids minecraft and homework pc.
know old video but today i was really looking forward to use my brand new pc that i built, first i hit the power button and voila it was on and running even though i saw it was glowing red light inside when i checked so that can"t good a good sign. anyway after i had it on for less then a min it came to mind i totally forgot to plug in SATA power socket to my cd driver. and after i got it plugged it, tried to turn on it and nothing happens. what could be reason for this? tried turn off the on/off button on back of PSU but no luck yet.
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Unbelievable, 25 years in IT industry and that never crossed my mind. You learn some new every day, Thanks Carey.
That sad
All those years of academy training wasted!
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More sad the motherboard designers changed the design to relying on the a battery. Old motherboards don't have this problem, will boot even without the battery.
Haha I was thinking the exact same thing! This must have been fixed tho I assume on newer mobo's? @CareyHolzman
25 Years? i know right man, Memory's a Bitch
this guy is what pc channels should be, no publicity, no bullshit, straight to the point and an exact tutorial
My PC died a couple of days ago, but had power to USB outlets, but no power on pressing the power button. I searched on Google and this video came up on you tube.. it has only gone and worked a peach!!! Many thanks Carey, you have saved me a trip to PC fixer and lots of down time.. keep safe and sincere thanks once again...
You are an angel! I was really on the verge of crying because my pc wouldn't turn on, I took it out and reassembled it piece by piece and nothing, never in a million years I would've thought of replacing the battery. You really made my day
Was about to strip out my tower a couple years back when I discovered it was an issue with the battery. Thank you Carey, you are the first person on you tube I have run across that has brought this to our attention.
You learn something every day, I almost threw away a whole system, before changing the BIOS battery! I have been building PCs for over 25 year, but never new that a dead BIOS battery will prevent the whole system from starting, thank you sir!
Carey, I just spent two days tearing down my PC and re-assembling it trying to fix this very same problem! Swapped CPUs, PSUs, RAM, naked boot, to no avail. Was just about to buy a new MB as that was the only thing I didn't have extra but decided to do one last look and I came across your video. Bloody hell!!! Of all the things to cause a dead PC! Bloody CMOS battery! Thanks a million for sharing this info. Needless to say, this fix or troubleshoot is not mentioned anywhere in the MB manual.....
I just got a new gaming PC and my 9 year old son began to desperately want a computer! Any computer! So I went in the garage and found our old PC. Guess what? This saved me a headache and after swapping out the battery on the motherboard, it worked!!!
Thank you!
Gosh... I thought the problem with my computer was something very serious like CPU or PSU issue. I started to watch your video with very little hope, but still I replaced the battery as you demonstrated. That did the trick! Thank you very much, with all respect!
Carey,
Gotta let you know I saved myself lots of uncertainty. My oldest win 7 pc usually on 24/7 which I'd just shut down for a dusting totally refused to do ANYTHING. I already replaced the PSU with a Seasonic 620W 80 Bronze bout 5 yrs ago when I was plagued with unending boot/reboot and inexplicable failures & file corruption. So while I did keep telling myself that it could'nt be the same problem, I just couldnt help thinking ... THAT dang PSU AGAIN!!! Then, I recalled seeing something on your channel some years ago bout a ridiculously quick & simple fix.
AND indeed, it was exactly the m/b button battery .... been in use for ages and forgotten.... until now.
Thanks much.
Ian.
Very interesting. When I have had issues with an old computer no longer turning on and the fans don't spin, it has been the power supply. I assumed the system would boot if the power was plugged because that would supply the necessary power. The system would then lose the date and time each time the system was shut down. Always learning something new from you...thanks for the video.
Holy crap man, straight forward and simple, and no confusion. I appreciate the help
This is why I tell people to look you up -- Thanks Again
My PC has been switching off and yesterday it wouldn't start at all. I've cleaned it, changed the CPU fan for a spare which did nothing, (I was thinking it was overheating)then priced a new power supply, CPU and mother board. And it turned to be that battery!! It never even crossed my mind. I'm so glad I seen this video before I spent a fortune 👌🏻👍🏻😀
I was frustrated from the morning as my pc was not powering up. At first I thought that my spike buster was at fault, so I went to the electrical store and bought a socket to see if it powers on through the board directly but to no avail. I was thinking of giving up and then I searched for "how to fix a computer which is not powering on?" and google showed the result, thankfully I watched your video. My PC has powered on, all thanx to you.
So, Thank you you so much! 🍫
My desktop PC failed to power-up after a violent electrical storm...assumed to my horror it was fried. After watching your short video...went to Batteries +, bought and replaced the CR2032 battery ($6) on the motherboard...and wallah..PC booted-up just fine. Thank you a bunch for saving me $, time, and frustration.
Hi Carey, watched your video and changed the battery. My computer is working again. Many thanks!
You just saved my life man, $5000 racing simulator PC and my 50 cent battery was dead. Thank God!!! I love you bro!!!! It was working perfect last night.
I can't believe a 69 year old women just fixed her old computer thanks to you! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Finally found a decent pc fixing channel. Subscribed.
Thanks so much. Was up most of last night after computer stopped running after a power outage. Gave it one last try this morning and was going to take it to a computer repair facility, but then I found your video. Changed the CMOS battery and it started right up. THANKS!!!!!!
Hey just wanted to say I could've spent a lot of money on a repair for my computer. Instead I spent next to nothing on a battery and this fixed my issue. Thanks a bunch for making the vid :)
Great video, love the close-up shots of taking battery out and installing new one. Especially nice giving the battery name, detailed oriented as always # banCarey
Clear, concise, and strait to the heart of the matter. Just the way I like it. Thanks.
Carey has really stepped up his editing and video quality. Good job!
Awesome - I didn't even think of this until I saw your video. You hit the nail on the head!
Hi..... great shows you produce, I'm loving every show, I could watch them for hours...and why not I'm retired now.......
This helped me out so much. Now I'm back streaming, and NOT having to go to an over-priced PC Repair store. Subscribed!
I once had the same problem with a friends' PC, she didn't have a spare battery so I used the one from my wrist watch! Yup, it worked, and she bought a pack of two batteries the next day and gave me back my battery plus a new one as a spare! I am not a PC expert, but spent 35 yrs as an auto-truck mechanic, and I always follow the golden rule: Start at the beginning, that means with the battery, when diagnosing electrical problems.
Interesting, thanks for the video, I have never seen this before that the CMOS battery being dead would cause the system not to turn on...
Exactly. In my experience, a dead battery just means that I have to manually input the date and time, at which point the machine then boots as usual. This is new to me.
I experienced this situation with a two year old Dell XPS 8700 computer. My computer has a switch in the back of the unit which you push and hold to test the power supply unit. If the light came on green, the PSU was good. If the light didn’t come on, the PSU was bad. My power supply was good, so today after blowing out the dust from inside the computer with a garden blower (in my backyard), I replaced the CR2032 battery. Thanks to your unselfish contributions, you just saved me $1000.00.
Once again, thank you so much sir! When it comes to computers, you ARE the man!
Sir I Know it's pretty late but I just want to say thank you so much!! I was thinking I will bring my system to the repairs but after I watch this, I didn't hesitate to buy this battery. Guess what, it actually works!!! THANK You so much ! you deserve likes and I will sub to you too
I am updating my old old old compaq for fun. This was a great video str8 to the point
Another excellent video by Mr. Holzman. My Carey Holzman inspired computer was built back in Dec 2013. My mobo is the Intel DH87MC. I got one of the last remaining Intel boards before they quit the motherboard business. The BIOS on mine is set at default with the only setting change is to recognize a faster RAM speed. So, when it's time to change a battery, hopefully, it will be quick and painless.
You don't know how long I been Searching for answer😭 thank you so muchhh
Reading the comments It's interesting to see what everyone's first thought would be, probably based off user experience on what they see the most, A PSU, the power switch,, I myself have often seen a system not power because someone had broken off part of a usb port so one of the pin's was grounding out the board.
I thought the issue was a loose power switch connector myself.
Yep! Add me to the list of people with 25+ years in IT and I never ran into the "PC won't boot due to the 'CMOS' battery" trick.
Thanks!
You saved my life! I almost bought a new PSU. You're a legend
My PC is literally about to be 7 years old. Nothing new changed, and its been that way for 7 years.
This helped alot.
I never knew this. I thought that the battery just provided power to store BIOS information and time when the system was unplugged. Never saw this before. All I ever saw from a bad bios battery was date, bios settings and time resetting or a message that says something like battery voltage low. Thanks for the great tip.
Thanks Carey googled my problem and you showed and fixed it. Never knew there was a battery
A real life saver... Thanks a TON Carey, You are Breathing 😊
Very informative I have viewed your previous tutorials and bought a USB IDA + Sata however as you have said be systematic in fault finding and I've definitely learned this from watching your tutorials brilliant for someone like me Thanks Carey
Wish i knew this 10 years ago!!! Thanks again Carey.
I've been repairing computers for 28 years and I've never run into this, and probably never will, but interesting video. Just a lesson to never rule anything out, and I now have another thing to eliminate in the process of elimination with a "no-power-on" situation, after the power supply has been eliminated.
I wish every tutorial on the net was this good,straight and helpful...
Awesome fix, short & straight to the point
Thanks Carey! Very accurate step- changed the 2032 battery on HP desktop, it starts up again. We had power outages, 3 year old desktop wouldn't start!
It is now 4 years later and very strange to see Carey without his turntable for the PC.
Thank you for this video! I have a server that is under 2 years old. The other day I shut it down to install a new hard drive and now it it wont turn on. Same as in the video. I checked all cables and changed the power supply and still nothing. I'm going to try the battery trick tonight. I sure hope this is it because otherwise I am taking the whole thing apart this weekend to test.
You legend, thank you. Thought it was my 10 year old power supply but changing the CMOS battery did the trick
Very helpful im inspired from what you've done 😊😊😊 and im IT student 😁😅 thank u🙏
Perfect video, solved my problem. Thanks very much!
Thanks for the tip, I wondered what the battery on my motherboard was for, now I know.
Dang! Wished I had thought of changeing out that battery back in 2009, my dad owned the same computer and ended up getting a new one after it died.
dude, thank you so much. you saved my ass just now. i came home and turned on my pc and it wasn't working and i needed it to work. good thing i had a spare unit lying around so i just took that and pulled out the battery from that and viola! thank you so much!
Nice job. Always try the Basic's and easiest possible fixes first.
Your videos are always so helpful. Glad I subscribed.
this guy carey, produces the best pc related content on youtube, if only those with the sponsored videos and free products actualy knew anything about pcs - other then building them, welcome to his channel
True. I just recently started watching his videos.
So here is my story..All credits goes to you.
My computer was not turning on.
I removed hard drive, ram , dvd , plugged out in litterly everything but my problem didn't solve.
I watched your video and removed this battery and inserted again ..
My pc turned on..
I will change it tomorrow.
Thanks dude
This happened to me this morning. I was all set to buy a new motherboard but found this video. What I thought would cost me a few hundred only cost $4. Thank you.
Thanks champ. you saved me during the Covid-19 quarantine
Managed to pick up a Z77 Mini ITX board on eBay for £23 which was listed as faulty. New CR2032 and it was working just fine. :)
Can I tell you HOW AMAZING YOU are?,!!! It worked for me!!!!!
THANK YOU!!!! I have pretty new laptops. But, have an older (2004) desktop. Which still use the same desktop for recording my music in my home studio. I finally started crapping out. I was getting worries I'd possibly lose everyhing. I backed up most of it. But then today my desktop wouldn't even fire up at all. Had an extra power cord and, some of the same new batteries I bought for my surround sound in the livingroom. Switched iut the power cord and battery. And boom...woked like a champ!
Awesome Video Carey Good tip
Thank you, thank you, thanks. Will try that on my Compaq Presario SR-1000 that looks identical to the one on your video.
I've been working on PC's since I was old enough to hold a screwdriver and I would've NEVER thought the BIOS battery could cause a motherboard not to start. Insane that a company with the reputation like Compaq (we all know it's absolutely wonderful - lol) would use a board with that "feature." Also, how many people watching this video remember pci dial-up modems?
Memories of my second PC... The SR 1210NX What a piece of crap it was lol.. Helped me get comfortable working with hardware and was a step into eventually building my first PC in 2009.
CR 2032 battery. I'm a gonna try it. Along with checking fuse. I have an appx. 10 yr old Asus desktop which won't turn on anymore. Any safety issues with electric shock when fiddling around inside computer? Obviously all cords/power to wall disconnected. Thanks Carey.
I love your videos, your the first person who I have come across that says changing the CMOS battery could be a possible problem with a computer not starting.... I have a computer exhibiting the same issues, I will be pulling out my Multimeter and checking the volts on it. I will let you know what happens thanks again even if this does not fix my computer its one less possible thing that could be wrong.
Thank God I found you, I was lost without you.....
Worked great, thanks dude! You're a gentleman and a scholar!
I got a MSI MPG Z490 a I7 10700 and GSKILL ram. At the beginning everything went well but, after shutting my PC down and rebooting it five or six times, motherboard remained stationary on the logo MPG. I changed the SATA drive with a SSD drive but I had the same things. I installed RAM, HARD DRIVES, POWER SUPPLY on some others PCs and they worked well. Any idea about what it is preventing the complete boot?
Holy crap! So easy, so simple. Damn, thanks Carey.
great vid Carey as usual, I had this exact problem the other day
Your amazing I've been troubleshooting for my pc since it wouldnt turn on and I only thought it was my power supply but after buying a new one and it not working I looked and found your video which saved my pc although my motherboard is only like 6 months old so I dont know how this battery was ruined
Wow thank you , you solved the problem for me -- biggggg thumbs up 👍😍
I just changed my battery! That was very helpful! Thank you!
Loving the hair Carey
You're a lifesaver dude
thanks so much
Thanks for the video, it was really helpful for me. 🙏🏻
You save my money & my time, bro. Thanks.
wow I didn't know that about Compaq/HP computer's. Good option to try if I run into a PC That Won't turn on!
a while back I had the battery die in my main PC. only 2.5 years old at the time, which I found weird.
Great one, thanks Carey!
You just saved me a fortune Carey Holzman. You, and Google/TH-cam - today, July 7, 2020. I can't believe I've lived to see this day - when an old woman can discover and fix by herself a power-up problem on her eleven year old HP tower. YOU. ARE. AWESOME. PERIOD. NO HYPERBOLE. DON'T CARE HOW HACKNEYED 'AWESOME' IS.
Thanks very much Carey Holzman. Really appreciate this & other videos, really instructive.
Seeing the Presario brings back memory of supporting Compaq computers.
you are my great inspiration to work with computers thanks for that
Thank you, Carey!
For increased geek points I used a multimeter, i got it to tell me that the old battery was definitely dead and the newer one had more power, by looking at the voltage and the amps. older battery had under 3 volts and practically zero amps. Now I have a beep code 1 3 2 on my dell optiplex so soon I will be whole again as soon as i figure that out!
Is that an old school compaq with the Intel Alhena board made by ECS? I have the guts for one of those sitting on my floor. I did a retro build in it for the kids minecraft and homework pc.
Thanks for the information and what a great tutorial
Wow thanks , I was ready to take everything to bits to see if i could locate a burn are something, it never crossed my mind ,
a battery lol
Great visuals and explanation. Thanks!
know old video but today i was really looking forward to use my brand new pc that i built, first i hit the power button and voila it was on and running even though i saw it was glowing red light inside when i checked so that can"t good a good sign. anyway after i had it on for less then a min it came to mind i totally forgot to plug in SATA power socket to my cd driver. and after i got it plugged it, tried to turn on it and nothing happens. what could be reason for this? tried turn off the on/off button on back of PSU but no luck yet.
these videos always helpful
Thanks for the info. Very useful.
@CareyHolzman thank you very much
This is happening with my potato pc today it is 7 years old
Thank you very much
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