[Tfug] Battery replacement

[Mike Martinet]

Sometimes older machines have a battery that's soldered to the motherboard.  It looks like a large capacitor.

If you're lucky and it's the large flat disc-type (looks like a silver coin, size of a nickel), then by all means, shut the machine off!  That way, when you drop the battery on the motherboard, you won't short anything out and fry the poor thing  :)  


MjM

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>Message: 5
>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:15:46 -0700
>From: erich <erich1 at copper.net>
>Subject: [Tfug] Battery replacement
>To: "listserv, TFUG" <tfug at tfug.org>
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>I have an old Dell pentium 120 machine that's losing time. In other
>words, the battery that holds the CMOS memory trace is weakening
>to the point that the hardware clock slips counts when the machine
>is powered off.
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>Can these things be replaced? If so, can the motherboard remain
>powered up while you're replacing the battery?
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>Erich
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