Technical question

[CreamyLady]

My beloved Frank N. Stein computer has been ailing for some time. We suspected a power supply problem, which is indeed part of it, but now it seems there is trouble with NVRAM.

Can anyone explain to me what that is? Frank is now in critical care, and I'm worried.

 

[Weird Harold]

NVRAM means "non-volotile Random Access Memory" IN other words, it's memory that doesn't forget when shut the power off.

Depending on how old your computer is, it may have a battery to hold the configuration in memory that requires a trickle of power instead of true NVRAM.

With out details of Frank's geneology, I can't give a better diagnoses than that.

 

[CreamyLady]

Thank you, Weird Harold.

Frank is a lot of newish bits, purchased last December, including an AMD K-6 processor, and some old Digital bits (not too many of them, and I'm not sure which, but I suspect the CD-ROM is part of them) circa 1995.

Anyway, thank you for the input. Frank's problem has been switching on; one really has to work at it. When he IS on, everything is fine for a short time, then programs begain to fail and shut down, or he freezes altogether, and doesn't seem to have enough power to start up again.

He's being diagnosed now, but I wasn't sure what the NVRAM was. Thank you.