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.
Good news everyone, my topton that refused to power-on, finally started.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.
I've seen old office PCs failing to boot with a fully drained CMOS battery.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
Did you replace the battery with a new one or will it only work without one?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.
it powered on without the battery but I didn't use it much like that.Did you replace the battery with a new one or will it only work without one?
if battery is internally shorted then yes it can cause boot issueI'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.