9 Mar
2023
9 Mar
'23
1:24 p.m.
On 3/9/23 1:49 PM, Bill Degnan wrote:
I have worked on enough of these to not take chances.
It's a pain if
you have to guess. If you can't get into the hard drive you can't read
the config.sys and autoexec.bat for clues, you can't run a diagnostics
as easily. So it's just conservative, my approach. But yes you could
just say this is a stock system I have the ref disks I don't see any
need to worry. Sounds like you have worked on these enough to know
and that's good enough for me.
Fair enough.
I think it's definitely safe to say that I know that razors are sharp
and not to run with scissors.
Your conservative approach sounds reasonable. Especially if I don't
need to worry about components releasing magic smoke being a likely thing.
THis goes without saying but don't remove the
battery!
I completely agree, don't remove the battery if it's doing its job.
But I'm not aware of any effective difference -- with regard to the
configuration -- of a dead battery vs missing battery.
When I mentioned power source, I was thinking along the lines of a
booster pack plugged into the cigarette lighter powering clocks and the
likes while replacing the main car battery.
But if everything is, and has been, at zero volts for a while, then
there's quite likely not anything to be saved.
--
Grant. . . .
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