I have a Gateway2000 P5-66 Socket 4 desktop I am having issues with.
When I turned it on it complained about the CMOS battery being low, and this unit has a soldered-on Dallas DS-12887 chip. Also, it would end booting at "Enter current Password" prompt and then lock up with no further keyboard input.
I desoldered the Dallas chip and installed a DS1287 (should be drop-in replacement) with a coin cell hack and while the battery low no longer comes up (and it asks for CMOS setup) it still gets stuck at the enter keyboard password and locks up.
I know the keyboard is good and I can hit F1 on boot to jump to CMOS setup, but I never get there because of the password and hang issue.
Any ideas of what is going on? The machine worked fine when I got it many years ago.
When I turned it on it complained about the CMOS battery being low, and this unit has a soldered-on Dallas DS-12887 chip. Also, it would end booting at "Enter current Password" prompt and then lock up with no further keyboard input.
I desoldered the Dallas chip and installed a DS1287 (should be drop-in replacement) with a coin cell hack and while the battery low no longer comes up (and it asks for CMOS setup) it still gets stuck at the enter keyboard password and locks up.
I know the keyboard is good and I can hit F1 on boot to jump to CMOS setup, but I never get there because of the password and hang issue.
Any ideas of what is going on? The machine worked fine when I got it many years ago.