riddle@woton.UUCP (06/19/87)
Does anyone out there know anything about clock batteries on the UNIX PC,
specifically (1) how to replace them and (2) the consequences of not
replacing a dead battery?
Some of our PCs have sat unplugged for long periods of time and appear to
have dead batteries. This not only results in the time going awry after each
shutdown, but we also have been seeing what looks like interaction between
the battery and some other strange problems (namely that UUCP activity
sometimes appears to cause a crash on machines which have a memory expansion
board later than revision K -- a topic for a separate posting).
I have heard rumors that AT&T doesn't want to mess with the job of replacing
batteries and will in fact swap whole boards (!) to avoid doing so. I heard
this from the rep of another company which sells battery replacement kits.
Does this make any sense?
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
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