I had a co-worker tell me that he had an old computer that the "trickle charger" died on him, thus causing his CMOS to die and screw up his BIOS. I have never heard of anything like a "trickle charger ...

I was recently given an old (~3yr) Compaq desktop PC. Right away I noticed that it had alot of problems booting up and would hang before actually posting. Now the computer will startup MAYBE 1 / 20 ...