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

Zachary Zebrowski zak.zebrowski@gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 20:51:37 EDT 2014


Take the battery off of the motherboard, and use a battery tester.... Or
just replace it and don't worry about it.

On Monday, August 25, 2014, pereira via Novalug <novalug@firemountain.net>
wrote:

> 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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