Never power your PC off when its memory training

[nlel1975]

Turned my PC on by accident yesterday and instead of waiting for it to boot up, I held the power button down for 5 seconds to switch it off immediately while it was still training. This morning I tried turning it back on and all I got was a red light on the motherboard.

Had to pull the sod apart to remove the CMOS battery after which it booted up and I had to reenter my BIOS settings. If only I'd have known! Never again.

 

[pastymuncher]

They do put CMOS batteries in ridiculous places these days. They used to be easy to get at but thes days they can even be under a heatsink.

 

[nlel1975]

They do put CMOS batteries in ridiculous places these days. They used to be easy to get at but thes days they can even be under a heatsink.

I was lucky mine was easy to get to. Still I hate taking my PC apart at the best of times. A lot of crawling about on the floor and moving it around.