First post, by maw
hey,
Does anyone know if this board is supposed to POST or boot at all without a Dallas RTC chip installed? I desoldered mine in preparation for a replacement (planning to socket it), thinking the board might just behave like it has a dead or missing battery — but instead, it does nothing except briefly flash all three keyboard LEDs on power-up.
Could it be that the system expects a basic handshake or signal from the RTC, and without any chip present, it simply freezes? Like even a dead Dallas chip still provides some minimal response or pinlevel behavior that the board relies on, but with no chip at all, there is nothing on the bus and that causes it to hang?
Thanks
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