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From: mr@isrnix.UUCP (mr)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PCAT Real-time Clock Problem
Message-ID: <843@isrnix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Sep-86 00:16:04 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 30 00:16:04 1986
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Reply-To: mr@isrnix.UUCP (mr)
Organization: indiana university, bloomington
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>Hey, the real-time clock in my PCAT seems to not be working too!  It's been
>working fine for the last year or two but now it's off and Diagnostics
>Setup won't fix it.  I just figured I was going to have to get in there and
>fool around with the battery.  Reading Brian's article makes me hope one
>of you hardware people out there will enlighten the net with all the ins&outs
>of AT clocks and batteries.
>

well, the timing of this discussion worked out nicely.

after having to remove the fdisk out of our sick AT last week ("106 --
System Board Error"), inside, i saw this little grey box stuck onto the back
of the unit with velcro.  the box said "ibm battery" or some such.

now this pc has _never_ kept its own time (or anything else important for
that matter :-) and i'd like to ask what is its purpose?  do they ALL not
work?  what does the diagnostics setup have to do with it? 


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