[Gllug] Ubuntu 10.10 PPC on PowerMac G5 hardware issues?

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 03 Dec, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> 

> 
> Yeah, I've had a couple of PC motherboards die on me completely after 
> swapping the bios battery in the past but they've always been in trouble 
> beforehand. Sadly I never managed to resuscitate any of them. I figured 
> the image in the bios chip must have become damaged/corrupted and the 
> power from the battery was the only thing keeping it alive somehow. 
> Maybe someone who know more about the internals of bios chips could shed 
> some light?
> 
   Do not finger the bios battery, you may leave enough of a mark to short
it out or cause corrosion on the contacts.



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