No boot : 9 beeps error SOLVED 241

On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 00:31:01 -0400, Nick Monyatovsky

I hate to break it to you, but the problem you experienced has multiple potential causes and you're looking somewhat naive to disount the more common ones like "motherboard gone bad" and calling them "nonsense". Generally posters make suggestions of what "could" be the problem but not a situation where "there is no other possible thing, no matter how remotely unlikely, that could be the cause instead". Every system is exposed to it's own variables that can (and do) differ from the next system or one in a hypothetic laboratory environment.

The fact is that some boards do what you described with a drained battery and others do not, but usually it's more than just a drained battery, BUT on the other hand since your system was 6 years old, yes you should've checked all things that wear over time first, like the battery, fans, capacitors.

If there weren't any suggestions to check the battery, it could be that nobody though of it "that time", on your particular post, or it could instead be that people get tired of posting same exact thing time and time again, hoping that a cursory search of resources like Google Groups would've revealed the typical troubleshooting methods to use. With such a large and comprehensive knowledgebase as Google groups available to anyone online, it would not be unreasonable to expect that if someone had a system that still wouldn't run, that the problem is less likely something simple and obvious like the battery.

Regardless, it's good to know it's working again, and yes, checking the battery is one of the basic steps anyone should take when their system won't post.