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Subject: Re: Could on/off problems be linked cmos battery?

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Trent

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Date Posted: 09:16:48 10/20/99 Wed
In reply to: Robert Sweeny 's message, "Could on/off problems be linked cmos battery?" on 07:35:48 10/20/99 Wed

I can't be positive, but this was a typical symptom of a bad CMOS battery. The other is when the computer forgets the date and time.

If I recall correctly, if the CMOS battery wasn't accessible via the RAM cover, then it required almost the whole computer to be taken apart. I know the battery was a Maxell, but not sure of the part number.

> Hi people
> My 13 month old Vivante XL has just died. For several
> weeks it has been difficult to turn it on. It would
> only boot every fourth or fifth time if lucky. Usually
> the light on the cd drive would come on briefly and
> you could hear something happening inside, but the
> screen remained blank so you'd have to try again.
> Several days ago it became 10 to 15 tries were
> necessary. Now it won't start at all. Hence my
> question, could this be a cmos battery in need of
> replacement? I ask because my time/date have never
> been reliable and I thought that was an indicator of a
> faulty cmos battery...
> On a related matter. Trent mentioned that there were
> two versions of this machine. It would appear by
> machine is the older version because I can't see the
> battery under the ram cover. Does this mean I have to
> send the machine to AESusa in California just to have
> a battery replaced?
> Thanks everyone
> Robert

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Could on/off problems be linked cmos battery?	James McCormack	12:36:19 10/20/99 Wed

Re: Could on/off problems be linked cmos battery?	Randy Secrest	09:02:00 01/23/00 Sun