Hi Richard,
On Saturday 30 September 2006 19:08, Richard King Inscribed Thus:
> Hi,
>
> Thr RS person should be able to check the current state of the
> battery (assuming they have a volt-meter in stock!).
> A new lithium cell should show >3V, & your 6-yo battery could even
> show a negative voltage if it's really-really dead.
> If the new one's dead (rare), just get another: it's not worth
> hassling for 3 bucks!
All I do to test these 3 volt coin batteries is stick a LED, any colour,
across the sides. You must get the LED the right way round !
If the LED lights up then the battery is Ok. If it can't light up the
LED then the battery has had it...... Throw it away !!
> It sounds like the CMOS memory in your PC has lost its contents. I
> guess the place to start would be to get into the BIOS (usually by
> holding down the DEL key just after power up (as soon as the prompt
> appears at the bottom of the screen), & choosing to re-load defaults,
> then set the HD type to AUTO.
>
> You mentioned a CR2032 cell: is that the original type too?
>
> It'll work in the end! These hard times are just a passing thing ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard.be
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Best Regards:
Derrick.
Pontefract Linux Users Group.
plug at play-net.co.uk
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