On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Jeroen wrote:
> > Can I take the battery out today and get a new one tomorrow or does it
> > have
> > to be really fast, like old one out, new one in?
> Once you take the battery out, the bios loses all knowledge of time and
> date and configuration settings. It doesn't matter how long the
> battery is out, but I wouldn't count on being able to use the machine
> until you put a new one in. Is that what you wanted to know? :-)
Nope. The CMOS will live for another couple of minutes at least.
This is what happened with the MBs I worked with. And this is why there
are two pins on the MB that need a jumper in order to clear the data from
the CMOS. So if you want to reset the CMOS, take the battery out and put
the jumper on the way your MB manual says. Else you will have more than
enough time to replace the battery. Of course, there can be problems with
the CMOS or the MB, but I don't think so.
Raider
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