Stupid PC question...
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29wordsforsnow
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If it's an older model, the chance that the CMOS battery is dead is very high.
- Unplug the power cord!!!
- find the CR<four-door number> battery on the mainboard, get a new one
- use a flat screwdriver to unlock the holding clamp which will release the battery
- insert new battery
- replug power and set date&time
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Thanks. Buying the battery in lockdown probably means online...
29wordsforsnow
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Usually, you get those in well-sorted super-markets. Just buy one with exactly the same CR-code.
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wipe any finger marks from the metal of the cell before installing it; sweat can be corrosive.
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As long as it's not shipping via the Suez...
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I do NOT buy anything shipped from China. A product I buy might have been made in China ( I can't always tell), but I buy from UK stockists.
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My Chromebook was under $140 a little over a year ago. Yet I prefer the desktop.
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A lot of the older models the battery is going. Just replace it.
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I've had to replace my CMOS battery twice in my desktop. Once when it just quit and the other time was when I replaced the motherboard.
Do laptops have a CMOS battery? All the laptops I've had over the years, I haven't seen one in there when I took them apart. Or I don't remember seeing them. Just curious as a laptop has a built in battery which could keep the CMOS charged. At least the laptops, which are all of them now-a-days have a built in battery that you can't remove.
Do laptops have a CMOS battery? All the laptops I've had over the years, I haven't seen one in there when I took them apart. Or I don't remember seeing them. Just curious as a laptop has a built in battery which could keep the CMOS charged. At least the laptops, which are all of them now-a-days have a built in battery that you can't remove.
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A British computer? Maybe an upgrade from lignite to anthracite would do it.
According to the motherboard - it was 'Made in the USA!' but several years ago.
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No. I used them at work in the 1980s. I still have one somewhere, along with the punched cards (and all the programming instructions on the IBM 1401 I was the system manager for in the early 1960s).
In my loft, I have an AT with 3.5 and 5.25 floppies and I still have boxes of both sorts used and unused.
I gave my dual 360k floppy IBM XT with Green screen to a local museum. they still run it on educational days (or did pre-covid).
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I now have three computers in use at once. I have bought a cheap secondhand Win7 notebook for £50.
I am fighting Microsoft to install what I want, not what they 'recommend'.
I have a CD for Office but the netbook has no CD drive, so I copied it to a memory stick and an hour later? I have Office!
I am fighting Microsoft to install what I want, not what they 'recommend'.
I have a CD for Office but the netbook has no CD drive, so I copied it to a memory stick and an hour later? I have Office!
