Subj : Re: Clock Battery No boot
To   : paulie420
From : Dennisk
Date : Wed Jun 17 2020 20:57:00

-=> paulie420 wrote to Ogg <=-

 pa>   Re: Re: Clock Battery No boot
 pa>   By: Ogg to HusTler on Sun Jun 14 2020 08:55 am

 >> ...One suggestion was to replace the clock battery on the mother
 >> board. So he spent the 6 bucks for the battery and it worked! The
 >> machine boot right up and is working fine. Anyone ever have this
 >> happen?

 Og> I had about two old pcs that behaved that way by virtue of a dead or
 Og> undervolt onboard battery.

 pa> Well, I have one ole laptop I might check then. :P I thought it was
 pa> surely the power supply (luckily a daughter board for thinkpads...);
 pa> but before I go digging into another ThinkPad to pull that peice, I'm
 pa> going to check the clock....

 pa> I remember when i was disassembling, that dam clock battery wouldn't
 pa> unplug and I kinda yanked hard to get that sucker out of there. Since
 pa> two of you described this situation, I hope to gosh that its just the
 pa> battery. Don't think so, but I'll be posting a thank you to Hustler and
 pa> you if so!!! :P

I have a 486 motherboard that won't start at all (thought it well beep if there
is no RAM installed).  No video.  I've been told that perhaps its something as
simple as the battery, which may be the case as I've tried changing the RAM,
CPU, etc.

I take it though, that the board won't start up until a new battery is put in
place?  Or is removing the dead battery enough to get it started?


.... Dennis Katsonis
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