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| Thread ID: 36344 | 2003-08-07 03:03:00 | Is this the end for me with my CMOS battery? | Julius Caesar (3079) | Press F1 |
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| 165965 | 2003-08-09 07:29:00 | Thanks for your help people... At the moment, I am using a somewhat "anything goes approach" for the mean time just to get my PC up and working. That is, the cellotape approach. I know it is not the best method, but it does kinda work, but when I practise enough doing soldering, I will then facilitate the 'soldering' methods. However, I am no electrician, and it would cost me twice the price to get someone to fix it, yet this is double the amount for a regular soldering kit. At the moment, I do have odd problems, such as If I do take the power cable (from the HDD) and find that my CMOS errors are set back to their default settings with the Time set back to January 1 1999. Would it be an idea to buy another CMOS battery? Or would this approach be a waste of time? |
Julius Caesar (3079) | ||
| 165966 | 2003-08-09 07:53:00 | The battery will need to be replaced by the sound of it. Go in to Dick Smith and ask them if they can check your battery, they have the multimeters :) If the battery is OK, then it is your holder that is still the problem. The battery maintains the systems clock. |
Pheonix (280) | ||
| 165967 | 2003-08-09 09:55:00 | Thanks Pheonix, I might just try that! |
Julius Caesar (3079) | ||
| 165968 | 2003-08-10 03:21:00 | I'm glad to hear that you have taken the safe and simple way ... it's easy for those who have many years of experience (and have things like temperature controlled "soldering stations" and desoldering tools -- I have them too, and the experience :D ) to assume that others have the same. I would certainly do it the "cheap and cheerful" way ... and only if it didn't work would I use more extreme steps. Make sure you have "saved" the CMOS settings ... if they are not saved, and the checksum corectly written, things like the clock might be regarded as unreliable, and put back to the default. Autodetection can sort out the disks, time and date are a bit more difficult. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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