Re: press 4 to unlock core

On 2020-10-22 11:40, KenW wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:07:15 -0400, bad sector
> <forgetski@postit_INVALID_.gov> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Having 'increasing' probs with my 8-core AMD destktop.
>> The board is an asus-xhair-IV
>>
>> Boot often doesn't even begin and pops the subject
>> error message which includes "or F.. to load defaults"
>> and words of this nature.
>>
>> CPU temps never above 50c.
>>
>> BIOS should come up by touching "Del" but it takes a dozen
>> attempts for that to work with my new usb gaming keyboard.
>>
>> This morning bios just would  not detect 2 of my data drives
>> in sata slots 3 & 4 (using a 5-bay rack with 1-4 sata reserved).
>>
>> After I don't know how many reboots bios still wasn't detecting
>> but "fdisk -l" finally picked one of them up.
>>
>> On the last boot bios detected it too, got it mounted, and
>> it's presently taking 1tb of backups.
>>
>> I would just like some ballpark hunches to start with, what
>> do symptoms like this suggest?  Mobo, rack, bios?
> 
> Battery cr-2032 could be going bad (low voltage)
> 
> 
> KenW

thanks, I forgot them buggers are not rechargeable!

gonna check it out