Re: system abort

Agree about the bad engineering - but things aren't that bad.

The only time this is an issue is when the system is powered off, either intentionally or otherwise.

This could be prevented with a UPS battery backup protection, which most systems of this type probably have.

Even without the UPS protection, in the few times that one would experience a power shutdown, the advance realization that the clock would not be dependable upon power resumption would lead one to automatically perform an ISL clkutil clock adjustment.

I wouldn't even think of considering the expense of changing the system board to solve this problem.

At 07:10 PM 2007-07-17, Matthew Perdue wrote:
Quoting Cathlene Mc Rae <cathlene_mcrae@xxxxxx>:

> HP 3000/9x9KS and HP 9000/Kx00 computers contain a lithium battery on the
> System Board. The lithium battery is NOT an FRU. If the lithium battery is
> bad or depleted, the system board must be replaced.
>
> Best Regards
> Cathlene Mc Rae
> HP SR. Response Center Engineer
> cathlene.mcrae@xxxxxx

Now that's just plain bad engineering without any regard for the customer.

To require a customer to replace an entire system board at a cost of many 100's
to several 1000's of dollars (board + cost of HP installing it and setting CPU
name string and electronic serial number + cost of time the machine is down)
simply because a part that costs under $5 at a local Radio Shack? Outrageous.

It's the same as the cpu fan going bad in an A500-100-20 requiring the
expenditure of more than $1,000 to replace the entire cpu/fan assembly, when
the fan that's gone bad costs on the open market (if you search hard enough and
can locate one) less than $50. Outrageous also.

But hey, this is what HP "invented".... Shame, shame, shame.

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