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Happened again, dead motherboard battery. My Dell had it happen and not my MSI B450 Tomahawk Max 2 has a dead fucking battery and just after 6 months. Well I thought I was hacked or had a root kit or that the quality of linux had shit the bed. My mouse clicks and wifi adapter and keyboard all usb were acting funny, my OS was slow as fuck, and then I tried to do an install and the drive was locked and I found out that it will not unlock till I have another battery with a charge in the motherboard. I was bullshit, I've been distro hopping because of distro's acting flaky and come to find out the battery was shit in the board.

I then went online to find one and then come to find out that a lot of resellers are selling ones that are dead and refurbished aka recharged but a button cell unless marked rechargable might last a month. I think MSI bought a shitload of used but with a charge cells at super low prices or the sellers online put the old ones in and kept the new ones if they ever had new ones at all. I also found that the batteries marked durocell and ever ready and even sony might have been sitting in warehouses for years and the resellers are selling them and if the warehouse is basically not climate controlled as in really hot and cold mattering the season batteries will go dead far sooner than they will in a 60 to 80 degree controlled storage facility.

BTW I am glad of the live usbs I had lying around for emergencies. I used one to burn another 5 onto superfast usb 3.2 sandisk ultra and amazingly they are as fast even to boot as my SSD was, I just have to write down new passwords immediately into my notebook so I can recopy them onto my new OS when the battery is installed. What is fucked up is that I have to check and update the time at least one time per day or internet sites load super slow since the time for packets recieved my system sends to the server is off a bit so the server is like wtf is your time dilation dude " I garnished up that last tech part". I notice about a month ago my time would be off once in a while so I would just check it out.

I was looking around for the locked drive and found a lot of users nowadays are getting computers where the batteries last less than 6 months. I think it's time for the manufacturers to test batteries first to see if they have at least 3 volts and more like 3.3 to 3.5 is better showing a full charge and a relatively newly manufactured battery. I'm betting if I took my battery and tested it I would see around .5 or less so it basically isn't doing shit in the system except not showing a charge. I think though cannot prove it that the battery was virtually dead when I recieved it. I remember trying to install a distro so I started my PC and then it installed the system but it ran like shit. I then went into bios for some message about 32bit when installing something and it was in not uefi but windows friendly CRM and the virtualization was off and I remember setting it to the on position the day before. It was then I realized it only fucked up when off no restarting but totally off since I guess a residual charge holds for long enough to restart but stut down for a minute and the system forgets all it's settings in the bios.

So all my frustration was a dead fucking battery from a shitty fucking cheap motherfucking motherboard manufacturer.

Happened again, dead motherboard battery. My Dell had it happen and not my MSI B450 Tomahawk Max 2 has a dead fucking battery and just after 6 months. Well I thought I was hacked or had a root kit or that the quality of linux had shit the bed. My mouse clicks and wifi adapter and keyboard all usb were acting funny, my OS was slow as fuck, and then I tried to do an install and the drive was locked and I found out that it will not unlock till I have another battery with a charge in the motherboard. I was bullshit, I've been distro hopping because of distro's acting flaky and come to find out the battery was shit in the board. I then went online to find one and then come to find out that a lot of resellers are selling ones that are dead and refurbished aka recharged but a button cell unless marked rechargable might last a month. I think MSI bought a shitload of used but with a charge cells at super low prices or the sellers online put the old ones in and kept the new ones if they ever had new ones at all. I also found that the batteries marked durocell and ever ready and even sony might have been sitting in warehouses for years and the resellers are selling them and if the warehouse is basically not climate controlled as in really hot and cold mattering the season batteries will go dead far sooner than they will in a 60 to 80 degree controlled storage facility. BTW I am glad of the live usbs I had lying around for emergencies. I used one to burn another 5 onto superfast usb 3.2 sandisk ultra and amazingly they are as fast even to boot as my SSD was, I just have to write down new passwords immediately into my notebook so I can recopy them onto my new OS when the battery is installed. What is fucked up is that I have to check and update the time at least one time per day or internet sites load super slow since the time for packets recieved my system sends to the server is off a bit so the server is like wtf is your time dilation dude " I garnished up that last tech part". I notice about a month ago my time would be off once in a while so I would just check it out. I was looking around for the locked drive and found a lot of users nowadays are getting computers where the batteries last less than 6 months. I think it's time for the manufacturers to test batteries first to see if they have at least 3 volts and more like 3.3 to 3.5 is better showing a full charge and a relatively newly manufactured battery. I'm betting if I took my battery and tested it I would see around .5 or less so it basically isn't doing shit in the system except not showing a charge. I think though cannot prove it that the battery was virtually dead when I recieved it. I remember trying to install a distro so I started my PC and then it installed the system but it ran like shit. I then went into bios for some message about 32bit when installing something and it was in not uefi but windows friendly CRM and the virtualization was off and I remember setting it to the on position the day before. It was then I realized it only fucked up when off no restarting but totally off since I guess a residual charge holds for long enough to restart but stut down for a minute and the system forgets all it's settings in the bios. So all my frustration was a dead fucking battery from a shitty fucking cheap motherfucking motherboard manufacturer.

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That sounds like some of the talk I overheard years ago at a hamfest. Some guys were talking about the "special diodes" that would open up after so many hours and ruin your motherboard.

If you really want to be safe, reset the CMOS to defaults after replacing your battery, and re-program it. Other than that, if it's getting corrupted then you probably have other issues.

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I've seen some pretty shitty hardware, my first motherboard was a Shuttle and I had a 75mhz pentium, the thing is I tried to clock it to 75 but it would only handle 66 since it would only stably do multiples with 33mhz base clock, I was so pissed my board underclocked itself. I wanted to upgrade to a bigger cpu but the guy i talked to all the time told me he'd give me a good deal on a new board and cpu when he did an upgrade for someone else. Ended up waiting and ordering online a 333mgz amd K7 and a gigabyte motherboard,truly a sweet combination with 98se and the computer guy did help, I helped him unload 25 monitors and PC's "His back was sore" from the UPS truck and I then was going to leave and he say wait dude come here, gives me 2 64mb sdram chips, like $160 back then but he was given them if he ordered around 25 computers so he could profit on upgrades, he had like 10 more of them given to him for the order. He told me the guys that sell the computers get them for around $5 and sell them for $80 and he just tripled my ram for helping for 10 minutes getting the ups order stacked 12 ft behind the counter. I was truly happy that day I was a helpful person.

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Getting that much RAM is pretty awesome. I remember RAM costing a boatload of money for a while and being hard to get. Do not miss those days, although it remains to be seen where it's going to go now with China hogging all the chip capacity.

Had an old laptop like that, a WinBook from Micro Center. It was strangely upgradeable, replaced the original Pentium 2 with some bastard AMD P3 clone. It was a 466MHz CPU, but the same thing happened, the clock limited it to something like 413MHz. I was still pretty happy, a machine from the Win98 days (Not even SE) could mostly play DVDs, and it served me well into the 2000s. Screen finally gave out on it, they had a problem with the rubber interconnects coming apart.

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Found a computer shop in my old town that did trade-ins, got a pentium4 1.6ghz after years on xp with a 768mhz and it had 1.5 ghz of ram far past my 1ghz and that ran me $75 with windows professional refreshed on it and had a 19 inch monitor for years and ended up with a 23" for $50 so I was happy as fuck that week almost double everything for $125 and I ran that machine and xp for almost 9 years straight till I got a Dell for $600 at walmart with win 10 dual booted with linux mint then just deleted windows since it was a waste of space. Ended up with the internal 1tb drive and since you only have one power connector for a drive with inspiron I ended up with another 4 usb drives hooked up to it. Man was that thing fighting to keep up with my tinkering. I finally bought a power supply and an adapter so I put an actual internal sata drive in it then I somehow rigged one of the usb drives with an adapter to run through the sata 3 connector and added a gtx1030 to give me a faster graphics but it was almost as slow as the intel onboard graphics which is truly sad but good for intel but it made mint not crash graphically but rarely after that.