On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 01:20:47 -0500, Mark David Roth wrote:
> I put together a 6 volt battery pack and hooked it up according to the
I know that a lot of people use a 6 volt battery pack for external CMOS
power. 3.6 volts is sufficient. I use a 4.5 volt battery pack.
> instructions in the manual. Every time I turned the machine of it lost
> all the CMOS settings. It wasn't until I disconnected the battery pack
> that it would save the the settings during shutdown. Did I hook up the
> battery backwards or what. The manual said pin 1 6 volts, pin 2 not used,
> pin 3 and 4 ground. I attached the positive side of the battery to
> pin 1 and the negative side to pins 3 and 4.
Hello Mark -
I have enjoyed having the same kind of frustrations myself, and the
experience of discovering the simple solution.
Did you remember to enable external CMOS power? There is a jumper on the
motherboard that you have to set in order to enable any provision for
external CMOS power. If you don't know which of the jumpers is used for
that purpose, then trace your CMOS power source with a multimeter. You'll
easily find the right jumper.
Sam Heywood
Sam Heywood
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