A lot of motherboards have a jumper that you reposition to disconnect the
soldered in battery to use an external battery.  Worth a check to see if
there is one on the board, (usually near the battery).

Doug

At 09:07 AM 5/26/99 , Jim Meagher wrote:
>Yep, you are correct, leaving in the old battery has killed the new one.
>
>Jim Meagher
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>> I have an old 486 Leading Edge computer sitting here with the second
>dead battery in a month.  It is probably my fault, but I thought I would
>check this out.

Doug Simmons

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