[Tfug] Battery replacement

Gordon Zaft gordonzaft at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 23 16:08:30 MST 2006


You can usually get these at Target, and elsewhere --
probably a CR2032.  While you may not HAVE to power
the machine down to do so, I certainly would.
 

--- erich <erich1 at copper.net> wrote:

> I have an old Dell pentium 120 machine that's losing
> time. In other
> words, the battery that holds the CMOS memory trace
> is weakening
> to the point that the hardware clock slips counts
> when the machine
> is powered off.
> 
> Can these things be replaced? If so, can the
> motherboard remain
> powered up while you're replacing the battery?
> 
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> Erich
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Gordon Zaft
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