** Reply to note from luth-astro{at}earthlink.net Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:51:15 -0500 
 
Jim, 
    
> You are apparently saying the only thing the battery does is power the
BIOS chip? 
 
The CMOS RAM and the realtime clock is about it. The BIOS chip gets its'
power elsewhere. No   
longer sure where the CMOS lives, they have changed it far too many times
to keep up with. If   
the BIOS settings are now stored in the BIOS chip (possible with flash RAM,
I suppose) then   
it's just the RTC.  
 
Steve 
 





 
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