Hi Charles.

23-Jul-03 18:31:06, Charles Angelich wrote to Wayne Chirnside


 CA> 1237c423d226 tech

 CA> Hello Wayne -

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

so the tech was right? or was the battery soldered to the motherboard also.
what was it you were tugging on?

 -=> Bye <=-

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