On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 03:58, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012/02/21 19:25, Aaron Mason wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On 2012-02-20, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have seen this message after power-cycling an ALIX. >> >> If completely switched off (take the power cord out), >> >> the message appears on the next boot. On subsequent soft >> >> reboots (without taking the power cord out) the message >> >> does not appear. That makes me speculate that the battery >> >> does not really work: it only keeps a charge when AC >> >> is plugged in. >> > >> > Most models of Alix do not have a battery >> > >> >> Let alone an RTC I don't think. B The only ones that do are the 1D, >> 2D13 and the 3D3 - the ones with video output pretty much since they >> use Award BIOS rather than tinyBIOS. > > They have a place to solder a battery but it's not clear whether > they have an RTC. > > 2D13 is a tinyBIOS one (as is 2D19 which also has a battery). >
I have two 2D3 boards that would throw this error during every cold boot. Last week I added batteries to them after soldering on a battery mount. The error message hasn't been displayed since, so I think they do have an RTC.
