I notice a pack of 4 little batteries, 1.5v, that the people who replaced my
full-tower case that had the bad power supply with a minitower case couldn't
figure what those batteries were for. Now I think it might possibly be for the
CMOS. Lack of those batteries might have been the reason for difficulty booting
after the power had been off for some time, and why Linux was giving "hdc busy"
messages repeatedly (phantom third hard drive?). Maybe I should shut down,
power off, open the case, and see if I can plug that battery pack back in? How
will I know if I am plugging it in backwards? Connector plug has four little
nearly square holes.
But the year 1994/2094 problem existed long before the power supply went bad, so
presumably was not due to losing the CMOS.
