I did change the battery. It still won’t hold time/date. Hence the technical term ‘flaky’. Sent from my iPad On Oct 11, 2023, at 1:56 PM, Aurelian Melinte via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: On 11/10/2023 11:50, Peter King via talk wrote: This, mind you, to get a replacement machine for the one with the flaky motherboard (which runs just fine once it has booted as long as you reset time/date and don't try to run X). Change the BIOS battery for the old MB? I would expect the BIOS to beep at you for a dead battery but time issues suggest me only the battery as a cause -- [https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif]<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> Virus-free.www.avast.com<https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient> --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk