🚀 go-pugleaf

Mightn't it be more to the point to just change the battery, to stop the
disk parameters being lost, which is probably his real difficulty? 

James Gray (jamesgray@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
: > I haven't swapped the cmos battery yet because it's one of those
: > "Real-Time Clock" one's and I can't find anybody with them in
: > Australia... :(

: Sound's like you've got it sussed out but every motherboard I've worked
: on since the late 80's has used either a CR2032 or LR2032 (ones a
: alkaline the other a lithium cell) for the RTC.  You can get the CR's
: from Woolies and the LR's from Tandy.....just a thought.
:  
: > My question is:
: > a> Is the reason Linux won't load due to the flat CMOS battery?
: > b> does anyone know where I can get a DS12887 chip in Australia or
: > elsewhere for that matter? (cheap?)

: Okay, makes first part of my reply a little redundant :)  Get in touch
: with any of your local hardware retailers and ask them for a RTC clock
: board.  You basically plug them into a spare ISA slot (never seen a PCI
: one) and it will automagically override the clock in the BIOS (even if
: it's dead).  Depending on how accurate you want it to be this shouldn't
: set you back more than about $40-$50....but if you want a +/-0.001sec
: per day version be prepared to fork out around $700+!!

: Good luck,

: James

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