RE: [SLUG] CMOS lost power

From: John Wright (wjohn1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jan 14 2002 - 10:10:30 EST


If you can identify the manufacturer of your M.B. you can go to the
following
link http://www.motherboards.org/ and try to download the manual. This will
sometimes have a layout of the board with identifiers for the parts as well
as
a list of the jumpers and there function( jumper pins are sometimes used for
connectors!) there might even be some contact information thats not a number
in Souel Korea.

-----Original Message-----
From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net]On Behalf Of Bpreece
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 7:21 AM
To: slug@nks.net
Subject: Re: [SLUG] CMOS lost power

Some new mother boards no longer use a battery they use a capacitor that
acts as a battery.

How ever most mother boards will support a battery connector that will let
you use a

Off Mother board style battery pack. The best thing you may want to try is
usuing google to find some one who

sells these. At one time Radio Shack use to sell these. They wwere about
7.95 to 15.00

Also you may want to look for a program called cmos ram.

This would copy your cmos data to floppy after you do so then warm reboot
then it will be ready for next time needed

You then do a cold power boot with the floppy and behold all data is back
except the time and date which it will ask you

for to continue.

 I may still have a copy some where I will look for it.



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