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| Thread ID: 51886 | 2004-12-02 09:15:00 | cmos battery: what procedure? | Owain Glyndwr (5741) | Press F1 |
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| 299209 | 2004-12-03 10:06:00 | Good suggestion. However in reality, I have never found this necessary. If you wish to, then do it, however I can pretty much guarantee there will be no adverse reactions if you do not. Hope it goes well :) Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 299210 | 2004-12-03 18:26:00 | A word of advice. When trying to remove battery do NOT use a screw driver. It might cost you a new mother board. I KNOW. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 299211 | 2004-12-03 19:39:00 | My Bios provides an option to print out the current settings. Is this a rarity or has it simply not been noticed in this current thread? You need a printer that can produce results without Windows (or even DOS) loaded but my Canon inkjet can, as could any of my previous printers. Formatting can get a bit wild but the data is there. A simpler alternative is to photograph each screen and print them out for reference. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 299212 | 2004-12-03 20:27:00 | > Sorry Susan > > > Leave your computer plugged in but turned OFF > > I would NEVER do that no matter what level of > repair it is > That's a strange one, Beama. I always work on my PC that way, with power switched off at the wall, but plugged in. How else would you get rid of static? |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 299213 | 2004-12-03 20:31:00 | > That's a strange one, Beama. I always work on my PC > that way, with power switched off at the wall, but > plugged in. How else would you get rid of static? Oops! I should have read the whole thread before responding... this issue has already been thoroughly discussed! :8} |
Greg S (201) | ||
| 299214 | 2004-12-03 21:23:00 | I'll watch out for the option to print out the current settings, BillyT, when I get into it. I have a Canon i865, so maybe that, too, will do it. What an amazingly obvious thing to do is photographing the screen. Thanks for that. I've just checked that the digital will do the job: it does. OG |
Owain Glyndwr (5741) | ||
| 299215 | 2004-12-03 21:46:00 | >I would NEVER do that no matter what level of repair it is Hmmm - I always leave my computer plugged in while doing repairs on my PC (not friend's ones)... infact, I recently undertook the principle of hot swapping un-hot swappable devices... like PCI cards... and Hard drives... and Ram... |
Growly (6) | ||
| 299216 | 2004-12-04 00:56:00 | I played with doing that on an old computer I didn't want anymore once (486 50mhz). I managed to hot-swap an ISA card, run the add new hardware wizard, detect and USE the card without rebooting :p. Done the same with IDE devices, but only UNplugging, and making sure to be careful. If you don't do it the WHOLE plug at once, the PC locks up. EG - need to borrow a CD drive, so carefully yoink the plug while the PC is on.... Never done any harm. Not done it to a hard drive, and never will. Wouldn't do Ram though... That's a new one :p. I wonder what would happen... I think if you were very careful you could pull it off, but would of course have to reboot. |
george12 (7) | ||
| 299217 | 2004-12-06 08:54:00 | Gentlemen: why would you need — or want to — hot-swap anything? What's wrong with switching off? Perhaps I'm missing the point in that it is more exciting to hot-swap. Anyway, back to the original thread: The operation has been completed with success. My 7½-year-old computer (PCDirect Discovery 580) came to life without a quibble after the battery change. Thank you, everyone, for your input. Owain |
Owain Glyndwr (5741) | ||
| 299218 | 2004-12-06 09:01:00 | BillyT: I photographed (9 shots) the Set-up screens, as per your suggestion, just in case . . . I haven't checked them against the post-battery-swap settings, but everything seems normal — so far . I forgot to pick up a wrist strap, so used some electric fence wire instead . OG |
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