Soldato
Look, it's been a while, ok? The PC in question still has a [email protected] (with the original, faulty SATA controller motherboard!) but it still does what I ask, thanks to a 1070 upgrade a few years ago. However, I've been using a low end gaming laptop for a long time as my main machine, so the big, noisy box only goes on if I fancy some 27" screen time or to fire up a flight/racing sim. I've always had a backup machine though, for peace of mind, and the 2500k has been it for a long time. So when, 2 weeks since it was last used, I turned it on yesterday and nothing happened, I was a bit rusty in my debugging skills.
Ok, very rusty! Very long story short... CMOS battery. Flat as a pancak... well, flat as a CMOS battery actually. But doubly flat in this case. And curse MSI for putting it under the graphics card. Military Class pain in the @ss!
Right... 'scuse me... I have a lot of cable and screw faff to do. It was all fields and CRT tubes round here once, you know?
PS I had to open my box of old graphics cards to find an ancient spare Corsair PSU... and pause, in the process, to shed a tear over not having saved my Matrox Millennium or first 3DFx card. But I did stroke my Voodoo 2 #TMI and lightly polish my Voodoo 3. Those were the days... bleeding edge graphics cards only required some overtime then, not a mortgage!
Ok, very rusty! Very long story short... CMOS battery. Flat as a pancak... well, flat as a CMOS battery actually. But doubly flat in this case. And curse MSI for putting it under the graphics card. Military Class pain in the @ss!
Right... 'scuse me... I have a lot of cable and screw faff to do. It was all fields and CRT tubes round here once, you know?
PS I had to open my box of old graphics cards to find an ancient spare Corsair PSU... and pause, in the process, to shed a tear over not having saved my Matrox Millennium or first 3DFx card. But I did stroke my Voodoo 2 #TMI and lightly polish my Voodoo 3. Those were the days... bleeding edge graphics cards only required some overtime then, not a mortgage!