I have an old Sager notebook and the CMOS battery has been dead for about 12 months. The unit had been sitting idle for some time. I decided yesterday to mess with it again.
I had tried a few weeks ago to dismantle it looking for the CMOS battery, but could not find it. So yesterday I called the Sager technical help line and got some great help on how to find and get to the battery.
I released the keyboard, removed a heat-sink, replaced the battery and re-assembled the unit.
Booted it up, ran the BIOS Config process to set the date etc.. and it booted just fine.
Problem was, that it would not produce any sound output, which is one reason for me messing with it again.
So, figuring the loss of BIOS was the cause, I rebooted and reset a few BIOS settings that might have had an impact on the no-sound situation.
But, still no sound. Next step was to emove all the sound drivers, download new drivers, and re-install said drivers. But still now sound. I could record and save a small .wav file using the inbuilt speaker which I could play on another system OK. On the laptop it would show the wave-form as it played, but no sound. I tried using the in-built speakers and a plug in headset, all with no success.
I could set volume levels OK with the sound controls. I looked around the case for any mute-switch, but found none.
After about 4 hours I was ready to give up. I thought that perhaps there was some trash in the earphones jack so grabbed a flashlight and shone it into the hole. That was when I noticed the small and well hidden volume control, just near the jack! Rolled it around and had great sound.
Oh well.
John Griffiths
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