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 SM> *** Nathan Malyon wrote in a message to Arnoud Bakker:
 
 SM> What is your definition of "non-removable"?  My definition is: I can't
 SM> even find it, or it's soldered on in such a way that it can't be
 SM> desoldered with just a soldering iron.  The Dallas Semiconductor chips
 SM> meet both of these situations; the battery is  part of the unit along
 SM> with the clock chip, and there are enough pins holding it down that a
 SM> simple soldering iron won't take it off.
 SM> One of those barrel batteries, soldered down at 2 points 
 SM> (sometimes 3) meets my
 SM> definition of easily removable.
mine was an squshed cylinder type which was soldered in to the motherboard
and *had* an plastic casing over the whole battery and connection
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 NM> BTW, Award bios's are on cyrix motherboards aren't they,
 NM> cause all my mother boards are intel chipsets
 SM> Award BIOSes are on Intel and AMD and IDT motherboards, too.  Ditto
 SM> for AMI, Phoenix, MR BIOS, etc.
MR BIOS
sounds like MR Men book
but on an serious (and on-topic) note
the award Bios's and the rest all use about the same area of ram
cause i wanted to make a password cracker for as many BIOS's as possible
oh yeah, and i scrapped the security program, he went on holidays and i
programmed an Autorun Program for a CD
cya
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