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    Question Do ASRock mobo serial numbers reveal anything about the manufacture date/year/anything of the board?

    This is so that I can guess the approximate age and thus BIOS version of another ASRock board on eBay about which I have much less information. I'm hoping to just get a good guess of the out-of-box support for CPUs in that board. No, I cannot see photos of the actual item for the version...
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    Question CMOS battery removal and replacement caused beep code for CMOS battery issue, can't figure this out.

    I put the battery to my tongue; it has a voltage. Then I put one in from a different machine, and I STILL got the no post and beep code. This is very troubling to me because it means there is an issue that is not the battery itself, and I don't have any knowledge to find out what the deal is...
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    Question CMOS battery removal and replacement caused beep code for CMOS battery issue, can't figure this out.

    On a Dell Inspiron 7250 laptop - has had an issue booting that as far as I can tell is not hardware, at least not at root; there is no indication it would be. I thought to clear the CMOS just in case it somehow got it out of this boot loop it's in, just as a simple quick thing to check off for...