[Novalug] Computer health (was: Pointers recovering data from IDE HD)

pereira ninorpereira@gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 20:48:06 EDT 2014


List,

this brings up the question: how do you check the health of the 
motherboard battery?

Nino

On 08/25/2014 08:32 PM, James Ewing Cottrell III via Novalug wrote:
> I have a machine with two disks. When one started failing, I swapped 
> it out. When the other started failing I scratched my head and 
> replaced the
>
>             P O W E R   S U P P L Y
>
> with one I had saved from an older machine. I also replaced the
>
>         M O T H E R B O A R D   B A T T E R Y
>
> Now that I think about it, I probably threw out an OK Motherboard 
> awhile back for lack of replacing the battery.
>
> BTW, motherboard batteries are avilable from Micro Center for 99 cents 
> each. They cost 2/$7 in the drug store or even $5 each.




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