is there an easy way to verify a failing cmos battery before I pull it apart to replace? the computer is about 3 yrs old. inspiron 8200. what type battery?
well, the CMOS battery is not the issue.
I shut down the nVidia NIX and NCPL programs and all is fine.
The clue was that it did not shrink the screen until just before the boot process ended. By that time most everything had been loaded. So it had to be a program that was doing it and not a registry entry or driver.
bacillus
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June 11th, 2005 07:00
seen this occuring before when cmos battery was failing.
ruggb
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June 11th, 2005 14:00
thanks
bacillus
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June 11th, 2005 17:00
It should be fairly straightforward to get to the CMOS battery.
Whether it totally cures your problem will only be known by changing the battery.
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins8200/en/sm_en/resbatt.htm#1084976
ruggb
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June 12th, 2005 11:00
I shut down the nVidia NIX and NCPL programs and all is fine.
The clue was that it did not shrink the screen until just before the boot process ended. By that time most everything had been loaded. So it had to be a program that was doing it and not a registry entry or driver.
thanks