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- From: alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov (Bill Alexander)
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
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- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:48:15 GMT
-
- In Article <4ege4h$s6t@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, claevius@prairienet.org (Brent
- Busby) wrote:
- >Michael van Elst (mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de) wrote:
- >: claevius@prairienet.org (Brent Busby) writes:
- >: >Is there a source from which similar, long lasting batteries like the
- >: >ones being used in the A3000T and the A2386SX can be found?
- >
- >: Doesn't matter. You need a 3.6V rechargable NiCD battery. You can
- >: by a standard battery holder box and use 3 standard cells of 1.2V each.
-
- Is there a faq on this battery problem?
- >
- <snip>
- >Oh, I see! Then really I suppose it's not the batteries actual charge
- >that determines when your computer is nuked; it's the batteries durability
- >to be recharged over and over and over. And when it can't do it anymore,
- >*that's* when you Amiga's motherboard gets a lesson in inorganic
- >chemistry... I see. :-) (This is good, because it means theoretically
- >that for some Amigas, it might *never* happen, but of course, even all
- >rechargable batteries have a time to die eventually I suppose...)
- >
-
- I open my A2000 last Monday night (Jan. 22) just to check out the battery
- since I am worried about this problem, too. I opened the case for the first
- time in 4 years since purchasing my Amiga 2nd hand (I had 2.1 added by a
- tech). My motherboard says B2000-CR; Haynie/Fisher; Rev 4.4 and the battery
- is clean as a whistle. I also have a C= bridgeboard inside (X286) which I
- have never used since it didn't come with any software. I didn't notice a
- battery on this board but I did see INTEL on it. Is there any problem with
- ripping this board out of my A2000 (get this intel outside!!). Is there any
- FAQ on this (it also has a 5 1/4 floppy drive). This bridgeboard really is
- a doorstop, does anyone still use these? Thanks.
-
- >
- >: You mixed things up. Static column ram is (possibly) your main memory
- >: and it is not battery backed-up :)
- >
- >: To set the CMOS setup you can use a tool like SetBattMem.
- >
- >: It _is_ a CMOS setup just in the way clones store their BIOS and chipset
- >: parameters. It is just used for a few things though.
- >
- >Ah, okay. I just remember when I upgraded to Kickstart 3.1, Expert
- >Services told me that if I had SCSI bus lockup problems (which I
- >didn't, but at the time I thought that I did...), that I should
- >obtain SCRAM and change a few settings. I assumed that if any
- >settings changes in SCRAM would survive a cold bootup that they
- >must be battery backed.
- >
- >--
- >Amiga /// | | "They had a glow-in-the-dark
- > 040 /// | Brent Busby ("Sequencer") | Santa in their yard. Santa
- > \\\/// | claevius@prairienet.org | isn't radioactive, is he?
- > \XX/ | | Cool beans. Nuclear Santa."
- Regards,
-
- Bill Alexander
- alexanderw@cber.cber.fda.gov
-
- "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981
-