I'm trying to help a friend with a G3 Beige tower (300? 350? whatever the last one was?). It had been resetting date on him, so we thought he needed a battery. I took three good batteries with me (each tested to 3.7 volts) and went over...verified date would not hold over a shutdown/restart...then swapped the battery out. It still won't hold! Tried each of the three batteries...all of which work fine in my G3 beige 266 tower...and which still test 3.7 volts.
I don't get it...what else affects holding the date over a shutdown? Is there software that will test the hardware on those towers to see if there is some sort of bad connection somewhere?
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Were the contacts in the battery holder clean ?
Is there any damage evident around the holder from a leaky battery ?
Sounds like my (now-defunct) 9600/G3. Same problem (among increasing malfunctions, which eventually rendered the machine unbootable). Terminals fine. No damage... nobody has a CLUE.
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