Mixing batts

[JohnKuthe]

That's what i did.bought one for under the hood today. Have two brand new ones at the moment but was reading that in the trailblazers it's a bad idea to disconnect the battery? Something about the computer having a rough ideal and not resetting? So going to call a buddy tomorrow that owns a mechanic shop and see before I go messing something up //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

I hate computers of any kind that can't or wont "come back up" after any power down. To me, a computer engineer by degrees (I no longer work in the field) any computer that does not come back up after power down is inherently broken! I worked most of my IBM career on a small server team, meaning PC desktop sized machines mostly. And on that team I was warned not to reboot servers unnecessarily because they may not come back up OK. To which I said aren't they inherently broken anyway? And what I didn't think of was IBM was working for a military industrial corporation here in STL and as such we were trying to hold or improve on performance metrics such as server uptime, and if we rebooted servers and they didn't come back up we'd take a real hit on our metrics!

Still whenever a computer goes into la la land on me and will not respond to anything pulling the plug almost always gets an immediate response! I powered down my Win XT Pro machine the other day, and it worked perfectly! Immediately OFF! And I waited 10 or so seconds before powering it back to let the electrons settle! Yes I know I sound like a control freak and I AM! Over computers!

John Kuthe...

 

[staan]

hmm even since the 486 days I've never come across a pc or server that didn't have a bios option to enable powering on after losing power. And I'm curious where the savant part comes into play.

 

[Lbetts818]

Once again John not trying to be rude but waaaaaaaaay of topic here. Talked to my buddy yester day who's ase certified and owns his own little successful shop in town. He said what the issue is is that when replacing the battery in my truck it's best to leave the key turned on for 1-5 minutes and let the truck relearn its self. That when you pop the battery in and fire it right up that is what breaks parts. Your truck is in the process of trying to relearn where the throttle is fully opened and closed and that if you fire it right up is when you risk breaking things. In short he explained it as studying for a quiz on something and taking the exam on the same subject at the same time.