Topton Mini PC stopped working after 6 months (occasionally works after draining capacitors)

[Jelmer]

I have several and there seems no correlation between time in use and failure. Some have failed within a year and others are still running 24/7.

 

[Luci_thenetworkguy]

It's the memory module, try to have a genuine one.

 

[slybunda]

try powering it on with bare basics. remove all drives and ram and see if it gets power up

 

[bugacha]

My Topton i5-1240U stopped power on after about 1-1.2 years of use. It has been inactive (powered off) for about 1 month and now it doesn't turn on. I already tried different power adapter, no luck.

Good news everyone, my topton that refused to power-on, finally started.

All I had to do is to take CMOS battery out. The moment I took it out, it started fine without any issues.





No idea how long will it work more tho

 

[blunden]

Good news everyone, my topton that refused to power-on, finally started.

All I had to do is to take CMOS battery out. The moment I took it out, it started fine without any issues.

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No idea how long will it work more tho

I've seen old office PCs failing to boot with a fully drained CMOS battery.

I would've assumed they would simply reset themselves on each boot and complain about that, but I guess some devices don't boot at all without a working CMOS battery. It's certainly a bit weird.

 

[KevinR]

Good news everyone, my topton that refused to power-on, finally started.

All I had to do is to take CMOS battery out. The moment I took it out, it started fine without any issues.

Did you replace the battery with a new one or will it only work without one?

Guessing it had enough voltage to read garbage that broke the configuration. I wonder how many have ended up in the bin/trash for the sake of a new battery...

 

[bugacha]

Did you replace the battery with a new one or will it only work without one?

it powered on without the battery but I didn't use it much like that.

And then I replaced it.

 

[slybunda]

I've seen old office PCs failing to boot with a fully drained CMOS battery.

I would've assumed they would simply reset themselves on each boot and complain about that, but I guess some devices don't boot at all without a working CMOS battery. It's certainly a bit weird.

if battery is internally shorted then yes it can cause boot issue

 

[slybunda]

same problem here:
A New Era of 1L PCs with 128GB and more

pc would not boot with the original bios battery, once changed it booted