What is destroying the battery on my motherboard?

Hi all,

I got a computer virus. It seemed to have affected my bios,
or I don't know what happened, but I had to replace the
battery on the motherboard. Then things were fine.

I started re-installing stuff on the mother board. When I got
to the IDE card, I installed it and then turned the computer
on to see how it dealt with that. The IDE card (I think it;s
called) is there for one purpose only: to connect my DVD drive to
the motherboard. I had to buy it because the direct connections
on the mobo were already taken up by the main 3 (floppy,
hard drive, CD ROM drive). Anyway, when I turned the
computer back on, it did something to the bios, and I totally
lost visual display. It seems to ruin the battery, because
when I replace the battery, it's fine.

I just bought this card new a couple months ago.

Do I have to replace it? I did install the card's drivers
too.

Thanks for any advice,

Tracy

 

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You don't have a computer virus. You simply don't understand enough about
computers to be doing this type of work on your computer, you should take
the PC to a technician.

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Yes I did.

 

A virus wouldn't affect your bios and you don't need to IDE card you can
just make the CD-ROM the slave and the DVD the master or vice-versa.

 

Or just take out the CD-ROM drive and only use the DVD because it can do
everything but you should just do slave/master.

 

She's already got 2 devices on the controller. That's why she needed
the controller card.



Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season...

Trent

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Some DVD burning operations can't work thru an image file...so you DO
need both the cdrom and the dvd drive.



Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season...

Trent

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No.

Also, the battery has nothing to do directly with the display. You
may have bumped the video card when you put in the battery. Make sure
the card is in securely...and that the cable is tightened down to the
card.

P.S.: Demon may be correct in this case!



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Trent

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Trent, I know you aren't this dense. A controller with 2 IDE ports can
support 4 devices.

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Both yer statements are correct. What's yer point?

Or are you assuming something again?



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Trent

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Assuming? The first post in this thread says there are 3 connections on
the motherboard (HD, CD, Floppy). Obviously there are 2 IDE ports, and
obviously the controller can accept 4 devices, which means a controller
card is not necessary.

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I don't see how there are "obviously" 2 IDE ports. The HD and CD could
just as easily be both on one port from the OP's description. There
ARE boards with only one IDE port. The original poster only says that
the floppy, HD and CD occupy all the existing ports, not that each is
plugged into a separate port.

BB

 

Why 'obviously'? Many mainboards don't have ANY connections built
in...and some have only 1. Even if she DOES have 2 built in on the
mainboard, maybe only 1 works.

Also, her 'direct connection' on the mainboard...described by a
neophyte...may actually be a controller card.

You missed the days when there were no IDE ports on the
mainboard...when every cdrom came with its own controller card. lol

I think the sequence was: cdrom x1...cdrom x2...Jim...cdrom x4! lol



Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

 

Yes, Trent, I'm sure many machines capable of DVD playback came with less
than 2 IDE ports and a separate controller card for each CD drive. What
probably happened was the OP looked in the machine, saw two ports, each
having a device on it (probably with a single connector cable) and assumed
that it was full and they needed another set of ports.

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yes there are two IDE ports.

how can I get more than 2 devices on them?

 

Yeah I'm a neophyte, and I built a dual xeon workstation myself,
complete with raid array.

Had no problems until this.


The " direct connection" is not a controller card.

The ports I am talking about are off to the right, actually near
the drives. All the slots for adding in peripherals are on the left
side.

Hmmph. >: P

 

With a cable that has 3 connectors. One goes to the controller, and the other
two each go to an IDE device.

BB

 

Sure sounds like a neophyte to me! Especially after asking how to connect two
devices to one IDE port!

BB

 

How did you do it on the Xeon?



Wishing you and yours a happy holiday season...

Trent

Proud member of the Roy Rogers fan club!

 

oh thanks so much. It's working now anyway.

Guess i'll call the pros about my IDE card.

I mean the ones that made it.