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to: Charles Angelich
from: Wayne Chirnside
date: 2003-02-07 18:16:00
subject: Re: CMOS battery

-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to ROY J. TELLASON <=-

 RJT> This didn't hit me the first time around. I'd be *real*
 RJT> surprised, if we were talking about onboard stuff that's
 RJT> built into bigger chips, if that Pentium in fact had
 RJT> 8250-type uarts. There oughta be some easy software that
 RJT> could be run to determine that, doncha think?

 CA> MSD.EXE that is incl with W31 installs should work.

I've found MSD.EXE to be highly flawed and only can 
be replied on to report how the configured system
is configured if it's configured correctly in the first
place.
However as my system _is_ correctly configured MSD
reports just fine.
I have HS UART's in the Pentium and confusion on that point was in
my lack of clarity of my intent to revive an old 486 board 
by salvaging a UART off of another dead board.
Now I'm looking for a DOS memory utility that might 
tell me if my EDO RAM is parity or non-parity
and 60 or 70 NS prior to buying 64 Meg. of EDO
on Ebay.
Oh yeah the CMOS now holds, it was corrosion under
the top positive battery contact.
Soon as I install 64 Meg RAM this system will hold three
operating systems.
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