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Hello Wayne - 

WC> Swapped out both the CMOS battery and the IDE cable. Took a
WC> few minutes to look for how hard they'd be to get to and
WC> they were pretty well in the open so I went ahead with it.
WC> Well the battery was _after_ I removed IDE channel 0's
WC> ribbon cable. Doubt it was the CMOS battery as it gave a
WC> red glow on a quick test on a 6 volt bulb. I put the new
WC> battery in anyway. Now I'll give it a week or so and try
WC> out the old Quantum drive to see if that might be good. You
WC> motivated me by suggesting the same things I'd thought of
WC> and it only took me about 15 minutes. If the it checks out
WC> and the Quantum drive I snatched out turns out to be good
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! 

Sounds great and I do wish you luck. 

Replacing CMOS batteries is not always an easy thing. Mine was
soldered into the Compaq motherboard and the online tech kept
insisting it wasn't. I almost ripped the thing out thinking
they should know and maybe it was stuck. Fortunately I don't
trust online help personnel and finally told them I wasn't
going to even try to remove it. It wasn't the CMOS battery
anyhow (as it turned out) and the machine is still working
here. :-) 

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