I almost forgot these things existed, but I’ve had a nagging BIOS issue with my old desktop. When I hit the power button, sometimes the system would power on, then turn off for a few seconds, and then turn on again. More importantly, sometimes the CPU fan wouldn’t come on leading to it overheating and shutting down. The BIOS is so old that I had to flash it with a floppy, and I had to go home and do some digging around until I found one.
I even had to screw around in Ubuntu to get the drive mounted. The floppy has been seriously neglected, but what do you do when you’ve got an old BIOS that won’t flash from USB?
Fortunately, the flash worked, but I hope the CPU fan issue is resolved. I really hate looking down to see if the fan has started up when I turn on the computer. I used to just leave it on indefinitely so I wouldn’t have to worry, but it gets too hot in here.
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