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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Battery Backed Up Clock Not Found
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Date: 5 Aug 89 19:27:38 GMT
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What is my 2000 trying to tell me?  I called a dealer who suggested that it
means that the battery may be dead, but this same dealer also thought it would
be trivial to change the battery, but upon further interrogation he confessed
that (a) he didn't know WHAT battery it took [but he really thought it was some
standard buyable-at-Radio-Shack one], and that (b) I couldn't really just drop
a new one in: the thing was soldered onto the board.  All of that lead me to
believe that he was just guessing and before I start disassembling and
soldering on my Amy, I thought I consult the collected widsom of you-all:

It occurs to me that if the battery is really soldered onto the board
and NO normally-available documentation mentions the actual existence
of the battery, much less what type it is or how (or how often) to
replace it, then I would guess that C-A is trying to tell me pretty
loud and clear that the batteries aren't supposed to just die.  Is
there some other possibility?  I was doing some hacking (trying to get
Ferrari Formula I to run off of my hard disk) and the machine had just
trashed itself and crashed (real interesting: patterns streaming
across the screen, the control LEDs on my modem went wild, etc).  I
ctrl-A-A'ed the beast and it came up complaining about its clock.  I
tried "setclock reset" but it, too, just complained about "clock not
found".  And there I sit.

* Is there something more I can try BEFORE I disassemble my Amy?
* Assuming I end up replacing the battery, any advice on how to go about it?

Thanks!!
  /Bernie\