I would beg to differ on this answer If this had not happened to me just 2
days ago I would not believe it.

We had 5 Gateway Astros donated to us - supposededly the power supplies were
bad and replacing them would cost more that the machines were worth. The
Astros look like an oversized I-Mac.
We took them apart to check things out and when the memory was removed
someone found the CMOS battery - then asked if anyone had changed it. Of
course no one had. So we replaced the battery with a used on to test it and
lo and behold the machine fired up - before the battery replacement it was
completely dead. So....... we ran to Walmart and bought 5 new batteries and
now have 5 working Astros.

Fran
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Lore" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 2:29 PM
Subject: Re: Can this computer be saved?


> Hi,
>
> Usually when a battery dies, the system will still boot.  The date and
cmos
> settings will be off though.  No activity at all is either a power supply
> or a main board died.
>
> Someone should be able to hook up a power supply to your board or remove
> and test the PB supply
> with out much of a problem.  If it is a supply and you can't find the
exact
> one, you may have to do a new case and supply and transfer over everything
> else.  That is one of the problems with PB is that they had so many
> different cases and main boards that were not standard in the industry for
> ease of replacement.
>
>
> GOD BLESS AMERICA!
>
> JOE LORE
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