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Originally Posted by SteamWake
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.
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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.