[mythtv-users] Hardware death - CPU vs motherboard?

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

2009/10/24 Leen de Braal <ldb at braha.nl>:
stions?  My wife and kids are missing DVR. :(
>
> First try resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery, wait an hour and
> put it back, then reboot. Had a Dell doing this to me, resetting bios
> solved it.

Why wait an hour, when shortening the pin of the battery holder for 5s
will achieve the same goal?