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Old 10-09-09, 12:37 PM   #9
goldorak
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Originally Posted by SteamWake View Post
Earlier pentium series socket 7 mostly but some later models as well. I guess they all realized their folly as the simple failure of a battery could render the mobo useless. I have personally repaired a couple of such boards.

Of course mobo's have batteries not only to keep time but to keep the settings of the bios.
Wow I've never comed across such motherboards.
Even in my prehistoric Amstrad Pc 1512 (around 1987) the computer used standard alcaline batteries for bios.
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