Okay, I have a Sony Viao tower computer purchased during the late 90's. It runs Windows 95 and after performance dragged down, I stopped using it and it has been dormant for at least a decade. I recently hauled it out and started it up out of curiosity. Predictably the CMOS was dead.
So now it's been a few more months and I just got back with a new CMOS and snapped it in. However, now, when I start it up, it's giving me one long beep followed by two short beeps. I looked that up and apparently it's a video error. I don't know what's wrong. The video worked a few months ago when I tried. It's integrated video which means I can't find where it hooks in to the motherboard thanks to the bulky power supply. I didn't touch anything between a few months ago and now besides removing the CMOS and leaving it out the whole time.
Do any of you have any diagnosis or suggested recourse? It may have just gotten old and expired, but it seems so unlikely that after a decade it would work, then a few months later it would stop.
So now it's been a few more months and I just got back with a new CMOS and snapped it in. However, now, when I start it up, it's giving me one long beep followed by two short beeps. I looked that up and apparently it's a video error. I don't know what's wrong. The video worked a few months ago when I tried. It's integrated video which means I can't find where it hooks in to the motherboard thanks to the bulky power supply. I didn't touch anything between a few months ago and now besides removing the CMOS and leaving it out the whole time.
Do any of you have any diagnosis or suggested recourse? It may have just gotten old and expired, but it seems so unlikely that after a decade it would work, then a few months later it would stop.