At 11:16 AM 8/12/98 -0700, Jack wrote:
>Jim Hutchinson wrote:
>> Since you're changing your battery so often I can't imagine it's the one
>> soldered to the motherboard. You must be using the external socket for it,
>> right? That's the four-pronged one.
>
>Actually, the battery is a little, easily changed one that I can buy
>wherever they sell camera batteries and other little odd-sized batteries.
>There isn't one soldered to the board.
Oh. Those. They belong in watches, not computers. I've never seen any that
last very long and most always replace them with the plug-in 4.5 volt
batteries. Life is much better afterwards.
>> Check your motherboard connections, the little screws that hold it down in
>> the case. Those are the ones I've seen most often cause problems when they
>> touch certain spots on the motherboard and ground it out.
>
>The machine runs fine, but the battery won't last. Could a poor ground still
>be a possible diagnosis?
A poor ground would actually have the opposite effect - it wouldn't let the
juice flow out of the battery, which may still be fully charged. A decent
Volt-Ohm Meter (VOHM) will tell you that.
>> Also reseat the BIOS chip. There may be dust in there (yes, right from the
>> factory) that is causing a slow drain.
>
>I'll check that.
>
>Thanks,
>Jack
Any time. Btw. what's your email address?
Jim
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