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Bios Battery where?
Name: JohnSaunders Date: February 8, 2000 at 04:35:58 Pacific
Comment:
Can anybody please tell me what the computer battery for Bios looks like in a 486-50, so that I can change it.
Name: Doug W Date: February 8, 2000 at 06:28:58 Pacific
Reply:
John,
If you are lucky it just looks like a round, silver watch battery and it is removable.
Sometimes it looks like a watch battery and is permanently soldered on the motherboard. In that case, there will be jumper settings that bypass the dead battery. You then have to stick in an external battery that has the right connector on it.
There is another type of battery, used in older motherboards that doesn't look like a battery. It looks like an integrated circuit (IC) and has the word DALLAS on it.
What make and model number is your puter?
Doug
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Response Number 2
Name: james Date: February 9, 2000 at 03:25:27 Pacific
Reply:
john, there is another type as well; some of the older 486's and 386's had a blocky-type one that was velcro'd to the inside of the computer case, and was hooked to a 4-pin outlet on the motherboard. either way, this 4-pin outlet that doug mentioned above, is where you hook an external battery onto.
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Response Number 3
Name: ron Date: April 21, 2000 at 12:16:33 Pacific
Reply:
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