Ziggy 4

Sometime ago, I pulled Ziggy out to make a fan duct out of cardboard to direct the airflow from the GPU heat-sink into the exhaust blower fan two spaces under it. While I really wanted to have the blower fan directly underneath the video card, the 6-pin video card power was put toward the front of the card and coming perpendicularly off of the board which makes the space just small enough to where the fan doesn't fit.

When I booted Ziggy, I had the problem where the screen was black and wouldn't POST. Eventually it posted and so I thought it was just some sort of static discharge when I was dragging Ziggy across the carpet to get him out of the corner enough to pick up.

I was in my other room last night and saw an old MacBook Pro remote and decided to open the battery compartment to see what it used out of curiosity, and I was pretty ecstatic when I saw the "CR2032" size printed on the battery. I set it aside since I didn't feel like dragging Ziggy across the house to check the voltage on his battery, but I did check the battery I pulled, which read 3.1 volts.

I opened Ziggy up not too long ago and pulled the battery for a reading, which at first I had trouble getting, but it was definitely dead. I plopped the new battery in and set the BIOS settings back to how I remembered them being before booting into openSUSE to shut down. After putting Ziggy away, I did another reading of the old battery, which gave me a value of .075 volts. I've never seen a battery that dead, but I'm assuming it's what the problem was back when I thought Ziggy's CPU was dead; I never thought back then to check the battery, but at least now I know to make it part of non-POST diagnostics.

Sadly, no ideas on a use for Ziggy yet. Well, I need more Wifi cards before I figure a use for him, as I need two more - one for the VAIO and one for the Dell (which is using the one Ziggy will eventually have).