Thanks. Not that long ago, when I was inserting the motherboard, I
accidentally knocked off a jumper. Oops! Luckily, I found where my
finger was and put it back. I thought I'd be hard-pressed to find a
manual anywhere except maybe a dumpster in Taiwan.
Mario
>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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