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- From: SKLEPZI@SSB1.SAFF.UTAH.EDU (Steven Klepzig)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
- Subject: Re: battery
- Message-ID: <SKLEPZI.5.0@SSB1.SAFF.UTAH.EDU>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 15:48:15 GMT
- Article-I.D.: SSB1.SKLEPZI.5.0
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- Sender: news@fcom.cc.utah.edu
- Organization: University of Utah
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- >I've got a Mod30, which recently has started booting up
- >with a: "161 Set time and date." and a square clock being
- >displayed on the screen.
- >My guess, the battery that keeps the time current has died.
- >So I open the PS/2 up and inside the only battery that I
- >can see underneath all the dust is a fat yellow cylindrical
- >sucker about an inch long attached to the daughter-board.
- >There is a warning pasted on the daughter board not to
- >try to recharge the battery.
- >So I remove the cards plugged into the daughter-board, and
- >remove the daughter-board. And I try to yank on the yellow
- >battery. This sucker seems like it isn't supposed to be
- >removed from the daughter board.
- >Anyone with any helpful ideas?
-
- The battery is soldered to the d-board. The only solutions we had to this
- problem, before all our model 30's went bye bye, was to 1)buy a new daughter
- board from IBM or 2)find an electronics supply house that would unsolder the
- old battery (actually the little clips it's soldered to) and replace the
- clips & battery with a new one. We even experimented with having just the
- clips soldered back on and using a nylon tie to attach the battery to the d-
- board through the pre-drilled holes in the d-board. But, all our 30's have
- gone away so I don't know how well that would have worked.
-
- HTH...
- Steven (sklepzi@ssb1.saff.utah.edu)
-