*** Jasen Betts wrote in a message to DAVE MCDONOUGH:
DM> I don't think it  uses a battery. a lot of motherboards use a capacitor,
DM> so what I think I'm gonna have to do is discharge every damn capacitor on
DM> the board until it's comopletely juiceless.
JB> Some of them use NiCd batteries that look like capacitors,
JB> short circuiting them isn't a good idea, they tend to heat
JB> up a bit. I'd be surprised if they would use a capacitor
JB> instead of a mini NiCd it'd take a capacitor the size of a
JB> coke can (or bigger) to have the same capacity as the
JB> batteries they usually use.
A battery is just a specialized capacitor.  The barrel batteries/capacitors 
that most 386 and 486 boards have just hold a charge for a couple of days. 
Most new clone motherboards use a CR2046 watch battery.
--Scott.
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