so i took the whole rig apart (thankfully not suffering another ACPI failure in unix) and noticed a couple holes in a page protector that i was using the isolate the board from the case.
well, absolutely brilliant. those holes were the BIOS jumper pins poking through, grounding on the case itself.
lucky me, i had a few plastic standoffs, and a piece of rubber that i used under the pins. now the board is working flawless and the BIOS has no problems at all.
thanks for the help, i replaced the jumper anyway, and also went back to the battery that the board shipped with.
until next time, on this (not so old) [fricken] computer,
bonestonne
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FartingBob wrote:
A 9500GT with 1GB of RAM is the most pointless thing since NASCAR.