[GTALUG] war story: CMOS battery AKA Real Time Clock (RTC) battery in a notebook

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sat Oct 22 08:39:17 EDT 2022


On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 10:51:16PM -0400, Don Tai wrote:
> 486x wow. 29 year old battery, that's a battery a bunny could really cheer
> for. Most of my 20+ year old desktop PCs all arrive with dead batteries.
> Thankfully they are easy to change.

Yeah I actually popped out the battery and thought I should go get a
new one, then checked the voltage and put it back in since it was fine.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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