Peter,
Do the display lights on the PC front consist of
four LEDs? If so, I can probably send you decode information.
I have some other ideas as well, but it would be
best to clear up the self-test error that the PC is finding as the first step.
Mike
At 06:25 04/11/2022, you wrote:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64OT but relevant:
My faithful, almost 10 year-old Dell Optiplex 980 is doing two odd
things. I do plan to replace it after Christmas, when (if?)
unload-the-inventory sales kick in. But in the meantime:
1. Whenever the power goes out, I have to crawl
under my desk, pull the CMOS battery, and put it
back. I can't just hit F2 and fix the
configuration because the internal error checks
kick in before "Press F2 for setup" happens.
They display lights on the PC front that Dell
does not document meaningfully. Once CMOS is
reset, I find that the date and time are
forgotten, and more important, the disk
configuration forgets that it is a non-RAID AHCI
SSD disk. Once I set those two things straight,
all's well. No, it's not the battery, which
reads slightly over 3v on my multimeter. And
I've replaced the battery twice, with the same
results. Everything else in the BIOS is as I set it previously.
2. I cloned the original disk to an SSD a couple
of years ago. Since then, the PC runs
significantly faster in general. But every so
often, there is a long hesitation when loading a
program, or when switching from one program to another.
Gruesome details: Win10 professional (which was
upgraded from Win7, so the registry has all old
installation remnants on it). 8 GB RAM, 433 GB
Crucial SSD system drive with 268 GB free, 1.81
TB conventional HDD data drive with 1.23 TB
free. The latter has all my photos on it. The
motherboard doesn't have a fast/broad enough
path to take full advantage of the SSD, but it
still helps. The SSD is trimmed and the HDD data
drive is defragged weekly. I back up my data to
both an external SSD and a conventional drive regularly.
Questions:
1. Anything simple I could do to improve things?
2. Recommendations for a new PC0¨IÝ?H?ÝÙ\\Ú]\?Ø\?H[?@ last few years.
I wouldn't mind something smaller than an
under-the-desk tower. I do want 16 GB RAM. I
don't need a "screamer" gamer's PC, but low end
is too low for me. Aside from the usual Web
surfing, writing and email, I do three things with the PC:
* Photo editing, up to 24 GB Raw files.
* Music composition. Editing is not hugely
resource intensive. Playback is comparable to
photo editing. I don't do video except to
occasionally trim the "dead air" at the
beginning and end of a video musical performance.
* Amateur radio. Mostly digital signal
processing, which is sometimes heavy on the
processor, not really taxing the rest of the
system much. And my log, which is a SQL light database.
Thanks for any input.
--Peter
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