On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:27:11 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I have a 4.5 year old Epox 8VTAI mobo whose battery has never been > changed. > > I just noticed that the time does not step when the power is off. > > Is that because the battery is low on power?
What changes, BIOS time or operating system time? :-? If it's BIOS time, at least it seems a symptom of "low battery". > I don't suppose there is a way to change the battery without losing all > the BIOS settings. What I do is to write down the BIOS values of *any* section (or take a snapshot with dsc camera). Then change the battery, and before the system starts, enter into the BIOS and manually restore/check the values. Important ones are hard disk "sata modes" (sata, ahci, raid) if present. > What is a way to check the motherboard battery? Dunno for old motherboards :-? It's quite possible that today's newer models come with some integrated "led" into the board to warn the user about this. I've heard that some Gigabyte motherboards use embedded "dual-bios", so in the event one gets corrupted, you still have the "secondary". That's a nice feature :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
