it was unplugged for more than one year as far as i know i will try to replace the battery , but i dont understand why it should bug it so much , i mean its a backup battery after , if its dead its not a problem , just nvram is dead right ?

also i see there is a huge plumb rechargable battery inside , what its for ?

thanks cb

On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:57:34PM -0700, Derek Lai wrote:

How long was it unplugged? The NV-RAM battery might be dead, which will cause you problem on booting up. However, usually you will see message on console.

Derek

-----Original Message----- From: Constantin Bogomolnyi [mailto:const@carpediem.fr] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 4:43 PM To: George, Andrew Cc: Constantin Bogomolnyi; toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: A dead f840 ???

Hi,

the console and the lcd shows the same thing , i mean it depend of how loaded it is , if i leave all cards inside and so pci scan takes longer than if there is no card inside to it freeze at the pci scan , if i remove all cards , it jumps until Testing Memory and freeze at this point so its undependant of the boot stage , but dependant on the number of seconds since the power on .

thanks cb

On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 09:09:31AM +1000, George, Andrew wrote:

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Hook up the console and see what it says? Anything showing on the LED display?

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of Constantin Bogomolnyi Sent: Friday, 10 June 2005 8:44 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: A dead f840 ???

Hi,

i just tried to power up an f840 , it freeze approx 45 sec after the powerup , i tried to remove all cards , and replugged the ram but it still freeze exactly after 45 sec .

it look like some "timer" freeze it after N sec .

maybe the watchdog ??

any ideas ?

thanks cb