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- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!ucsu!colfelt
- From: colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Andrew BW Colfelt)
- Subject: Re: AT looses CMOS power (with new battery) Clues?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.035721.4129@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1992Dec11.162049.978@alf.uib.no>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 03:57:21 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- THOGER@bg1.hbg.hydro.no (Terje Thoegersen) writes:
-
- >My problem is that even with a new, working battery installed (correctly,
- >too..) the machine comes back up after a power-off with "system options
- >not set - run setup". This happens when the power has been off for more
- >than, say, 5 minutes or so.
-
- Consult the manual that goes with the motherboard,
- or obtain the following information from a reliable
- source:
-
- There is a jumper on the motherboard that is used
- to select Internal/External battery source. It is
- likely to be located near the on-board battery.
- It should be a 3-pin jumper, near a 4-pin connection
- for an external battery pack.
-
- If the machine you inherited had a bad on-board
- battery, and the previous owner used an external
- 4 x AA pack, it is likely that the pack did not
- survive the second ownership transfer.
-
-
- --
- Andrew
- Colfelt@ucsu.Colorado.EDU
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