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- From: Ya, right. (Mike Neus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Battery Acid Timebomb
- Date: 1 Feb 1996 19:10:37 GMT
- Organization: Texas Instruments
- Message-ID: <4er37d$fta@mksrv1.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <4efa0d$apr@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, claevius@prairienet.org says...
- >
- >This may be in a FAQ somewhere by now, but I could not help but wonder:
- >
- >Has there ever been a real solution found for the battery backup timebomb
- >problem found? For those of you not familiar with this, lurking inside
- >every Amiga with a battery backup, there is a non-removable battery which
- >may just die quietly someday, if you're lucky. Or if you're not lucky,
- >it could spew caustic chemicals all over your motherboard traces, leaving
- >you with a very expensive, once multitasking, doorstop. And one heck of
- >a bad temper.... This is also true of bridgeboards that have battery
- >backed CMOS/setups, and being a bridgeboard user, I am equally interested
- >in finding a solution for that also.
-
- This is a "problem" in every AT class PC too. I have never heard of a
- battery "exploding" for NFR. I think your worried about nothing.
-
- [snip]
-
- >I'm surprised there isn't more discussion on this. It's the
-
- Maybe because it has never happened??
-
- >lurking timebomb inside every battery backed Amiga, and on
- >every bridgeboard, and a solution has to be found.
-
- Why are you so worried over this? If they havn't leaked by now, they're not
- going to. Put your cover back on and replace the battery only if it goes
- dead.
-
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