Summary: i need to know how to correctly replace the cmos battery. the last time i did this, i completely tore off the metal thing that holds the battery in pl...
Summary: Hi, I've been trying to Frankensteinize all my old 386 and 486 computers to try to make a decent one to get me started on linux. I have one 486 that ...
Summary: Have a Quantex system/motherboard 8500 TAC VER. 1. System is almost 6 years old and think that I should change the cmos battery. Trouble is I can't in...
Summary: Oi- every time I boot I have to press cntrl alt esc and it says it automatically corrected a bunch of errors- but that the reason was the cmos batter...
Summary: Hello again, I made a boot disk out of my Win98 but it did not work ......... although my CMOS battery I understand is dead. So I will try to download...
Summary: The CMOS battery in this model is encapsulated into the BIOS chip - in quite a thick package. Does anyone have experience of sawing off the top of the...
Summary: Please, please, please help me! When I first booted my old computer(256 KB CACHE MEMORY, 66 MHz, DX2 CPU), the messages "CMOS battery state low" and "...
Summary: I have a Compudyne 486/Windows 3.1.1 which has been unused and unplugged for about a year. When started two days ago, was able to access CMOS setup s...
Summary: Changing the system RAM won't resolve the issue. Try using the clear NVRAM jumper on the motherboard, provided you can find it. It's often a two-pin ...
Summary: Hello, Can anyone tell me if all cmos batteries can be replaced or not. My old 386 ps/2 which had a dallas battery went out. I took it to a computer d...
Summary: Not really... floppy drive(s) are probably the standard 1.44 Mb I have seen leakage from a corroded CMOS battery actually eat into the motherboard - d...
Summary: Please help. The cmos battery in my old 486 died, while entering in the info manually [for the 1st time in 2 years] I accidentally saved the default s...
Summary: I have an old Tandon N/B 386 SX I rebuild almost all... new cmos battery, new main battery, new HD I build also a new external power kit that works. B...
Summary: I'm a desperate hobbyist in need of the IBM setup disk for the 5162 XT/AT computer. The disk I have is now dead and won't work, I couldn't revive it, ...
Summary: Have you tried replacing the cmos battery? When the battery starts to fail, it can cause some of the bios settings to reset to default and/or the date...
Summary: Loading optimised settings is a good idea. It won't work if the cmos password has been set and you can't remember it though. There's usually a jumper ...
Summary: CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor) is the semiconductor technology used in the transistors that are manufactured into most of today's comp...
Summary: How do I connect an external battery to an IBM486SLC21-EC1 motherboard. There is a jupmer pin set next to the on board battery, J6 that identifies th...
Summary: I replaced the Dallas CMOS/Battery chip with the exact part number as the one removed. The chip was soldered in the board so requred a little more ef...
Summary: I never tried this, but remove the CMOS battery and this will hopefully erase the cmos ram?. Then re-initialize everything including the password....
Summary: You're absolutely certain you have the jumper in the correct position... you're not holding the hard drive upside down and looking at the jumper arran...
Summary: Normally means your CMOS battery has ran down. It needs to be recharged or replaced depending on the type. And then you need to run its Setup and conf...
Summary: Hi, If computer is really old the CMOS battery can be dead. You need to enter CMOS setup and set your hard drive parameters (or perform HDD Autodetect...
Summary: Hi, Enter CMOS setup and make sure you have your HDD properly install here. If not try to use IDE HDD Autodetection feature (if your BIOS has it) or s...
Summary: Sunlight is the ORIGINAL UV generator, however, even window glass filters a lot out. So If you were in the house, and not looking at it with a strong...
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