[JA] Re: Juno's cookies
- From: thepccat@xxxxxxxx
- To: juno_accmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:49:01 -0700
As I recall, sometimes the battery was molded into a package with leads,
looking like a big capacitor or something, and what you needed to do is
get out the ol' soldering iron, mount a battery holder on the case
somewhere, and solder wires between the motherboard and the holder.
Certainly not easy for beginners. But once done, you can use inexpensive
A cells or whatever. My emachine of two years vintage has a coin style
battery in a clip holder showing right on the motherboard, with location
shown on documentation.
By the way, how do you tell when it needs to be replaced? Can one make a
voltage measurement, or just replace it frequently on principle? I guess
my time is coming close [1.5 years when the lifetime is said to be ~ 3
years]. On the other hand, I have a paper copy of all the cmos settings
[somewhere], just in case.
Cat
On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 00:25:55 EDT bob.in.jersey@xxxxxxxx writes:
> On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 13:22:15 PDT, thepccat wrote:
> > Well, that will certainly work well for providing correct time to
> > file stamps. But why not bite the bullet and buy and install a
> > battery? Having a dead battery can also scramble your CMOS
> > information, no?
> Don't forget, Cat, that some latter-day computer makers won't tell
> you how to get at the battery! This is in fact true of my father's
> machine, made by Compaq around the time of Win98 original.
> BoB
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