re: Many missing Drivers & ID-ing the hardware
Saturday, June 25, 2005 at 4:48 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by dhm
(966 messages posted)
Sometimes they can last 1 month. Really. I have a Shuttle MK40VN motherboard.
It happened 3 times. Then, since a penny and a dime have the diameters of a battery
I soldered wires to them and superglued them together with a piece of paper as insulation.
The wires go to a battery holder on the outside of the computer. So now I run my
computer off of 2 D cells.
That is, when you hear varying stories about battery life, that can be a function
of the motherboard.
My neighbor does telemarketing surveys and when I told her, she told me that one
survey her company had done was of the angry customers of some motherboard that ate
batteries.
This isn't relevant to Cherie's problem. But I do like warning people about a bad
brand.
(I notice that the computer shop that ripped me off with this board is now out of
business. I must not have been the only customer who got such treatment.)
On Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 9:05 pm, Kiwi wrote:
>Sometimes the small batteries used for keeping the setup data in the CMOS stored
>properly can last 6-7 years, very seldom do they last much longer than that. Sometimes
>you get a battery that looks like all the rest of them and yet dies in only 2-4
years.
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