If you have a board with an integrated clock/battery, or any sort of
permanently attached (soldered) battery, you may find a pinout near the bios
chip (if you can identify that) for attaching a replacement battery, it will
look similar to a jumper block like hard drives have for master / slave
selecting, only it typically has just two posts.  It may be marked as the
battery terminal on the board.  If you should be this lucky, it will save a
lot of time instead of looking for the manual.  The old battery would not
need to be removed.
Tom Turak

-----Original Message-----
From: Roberto Safora Romay [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 3:08 PM

Some old PCs  had a litle black box with pins and labels like an integrated
circuit chip.. Inside that box were the battery powering a clock, also
inside the box.
I dont know if that is your situation.
Knowing the exact model will help.
Roberto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chilangisha B. Changwe" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>

> I am trying to make changes in the CMOS settings but
> the changes can not be saved due cmos battery failure
> as reported by the BIOS. Surprisingly I cant see any
> CMOS battery on this PC's mother board. Its a pentium I
> or 586.
>
>
> ChilangishaChangwe

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