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Shoutout to the client who swore his gaming PC was fried after a power surge, but it was just a $15 CMOS battery
I was ready to quote him for a new motherboard last Thursday until I checked the battery voltage and saw it was at 0.8V, which reset his BIOS and made everything seem dead.
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noah_davis7mo ago
That battery voltage is actually still high enough to keep the BIOS settings. A dead CMOS battery usually reads below 0.5 volts.
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schmidt.eva7mo ago
Well, @noah_davis, my old motherboard begs to differ.
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