I have a 3 AA-cell holder with a flat 4-pin (one plugged) connector (like
what is often used for the sound card to cd-drive cable and the speaker
connector.
This came out of an old motherboard and was used to hold the BIOS CMOS.
Does your mobo have a provision for such a connector?
doc
> Bill, I didn't know these utilites existed, but my problem is I can't
> find a large enough capacitor or battery on the motherboard. Paul
> Foster pointed me to the matrixlist earlier in this thread. I'm
> going to pull the archives and grep them. They don't have a search
> engine :^(
>
> I'm starting to think the CMOS gets its power from the power supply
> capacitor drain. Unorthodox, but it's possible.
>
> Mario
>
> >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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