-=> CHARLES ANGELICH wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-
 
 WC> I'll be one happy happy camper :-) Win 98 should still be
 WC> intact with all my settings and software setup and
 WC> configured on that drive if it turns out it's good. Wish me
 WC> luck!

 CA> Sounds great and I do wish you luck.

 CA> Replacing CMOS batteries is not always an easy thing. Mine was
 CA> soldered into the Compaq motherboard and the online tech kept
 CA> insisting it wasn't. 

 Yeah the Packard Bell is like that and the blasted leads are like
 steel unable to sever with single edge razor blade despite
 sawing away at it.
 No small set of diagonal cutters here.
 You ought to know you've got to get three levels deep in 
 tech support to get a knowlegable tech support person.
 My experience with Verizon tech support is when they changed
 modem protocols, like 12 useless calls before I specified
 "senior tech" who promptly advised me to add
 commas in the dialer to delay negotiation until
 certain new 56k tones had passed.
 Instead of manually putting the modem delay in each time
 I edited isp.sr putting it in there. 

 CA> I almost ripped the thing out thinking
 CA> they should know and maybe it was stuck. Fortunately I don't
 CA> trust online help personnel and finally told them I wasn't
 CA> going to even try to remove it. It wasn't the CMOS battery
 CA> anyhow (as it turned out) and the machine is still working
 CA> here. :-)

Good, what did it turn out to be?
The battery holder was pretty easy in the H.P. and as 
I've long fingers I managed to get by the cards, cables and drive
to get to the motherboard mounted battery holder.
Otherwise I'd had have to disassembled the other side
panel from the case as one needs to do to access 
the memory moduals.
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