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Date Posted:13:07:17 02/26/00 Sat In reply to:
William
's message, "Vivante XL - CMOS or Fan?" on 21:03:41 02/25/00 Fri
> I purchased a Vivante XL when they first came out. It
> was great but I then handed the computer down to my
> sister. There have been problems ever since and it's
> out of warranty. The symptoms are: blank screen
> during boot half the time, computer gets HOT (can't
> even put it on your lap), and the computer freezes
> sometimes during boot, or often after a few minutes to
> hours of use. They sound like the problems that
> others are having. I tried to change the cmos
> battery(old style motherboard) but can't seem to find
> it. I've taken everything apart except for the pccard
> area and the floppy drive. Where is the battery
> located? If it isn't the battery, any idea what it
> could be? At boot, the fan turns on and runs until
> Win98 loads, then the fan hardly runs at all. Should
> I send it into ASE? Any idea on the cost of repair?
> I'd really like to do it myself if possible. Thanks.
CMOS is under the speaker assembly and another plastic layer just above the F8/F9 keys. You must undo almost the entire machine to get that plastic layer free. Once I got it free, I used a Dremel tool to make a rectangular hole in the plastic unit so the next time I must change the battery, I only need to remove the speaker assembly. I hope the engineer who designed that board is frying in a very hot place right now. :-( Good luck. When I replaced the CMOS, my Vivante XL started to work great again.
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