William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:11:08 -0700: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:46:23PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote: > > At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the > > health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called this > > program, and it gave a few levels like "battery healthy", and "battery > > poor" (maybe it queried /dev/rtc or looked at the memory location > > where cmos is). > > > > Was I dreaming, or does such a thing exist? It's not in any of the > > obvious places I have checked... > > Do modern motherboards even have CMOS batteries? I remember replacing a > watch-battery sized battery on my 8086 mobo, but that's about the last > time I thought about it.
My one is a large button battery (bigger than watch size, and non-rechargable ~4V Lithium perhaps?). They don't usually embed batteries in the CMOS (I think), thankfully. -- TimC -- http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/ "These people [spam fighters] will go to the lowest depths," -- Tom Cowles, spammer and convicted thief. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
