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upgrade cyrix - voltage for cmos battery - all same?

 
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Bob Cooper
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 9:24 am    Post subject: upgrade cyrix - voltage for cmos battery - all same? Reply with quote
This upgrade project statring with a practically never used packard
bell 820 multimedia. never used beacause right out of the box some
one tore out the cmos. whats the skinny on cmos? any will do?
alternatives? PB documentation terrible so I have to wing alot of it.
I think I recognize some power jumpers on mob?

Any help appreciated on this mob.

Thanks
Bob
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Louie
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 10:48 am    Post subject: Re: upgrade cyrix - voltage for cmos battery - all same? Reply with quote
"Bob Cooper" <sierrasnow@cox.net> wrote in message
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This upgrade project statring with a practically never used packard
bell 820 multimedia. never used beacause right out of the box some
one tore out the cmos. whats the skinny on cmos? any will do?
alternatives? PB documentation terrible so I have to wing alot of it.
I think I recognize some power jumpers on mob?

Any help appreciated on this mob.

Thanks
Bob

Try here, Bob:

http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/pbmbid.htm

Can also get good info here:

alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell

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philo
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 8:43 pm    Post subject: Re: upgrade cyrix - voltage for cmos battery - all same? Reply with quote
"Bob Cooper" <sierrasnow@cox.net> wrote in message
news:d2092070.0312121924.3fcfa718@posting.google.com...
Quote:
This upgrade project statring with a practically never used packard
bell 820 multimedia. never used beacause right out of the box some
one tore out the cmos. whats the skinny on cmos? any will do?
alternatives? PB documentation terrible so I have to wing alot of it.
I think I recognize some power jumpers on mob?

Any help appreciated on this mob.

Thanks
Bob


The cmos battery is not terribly critical...
As long as you replace it with one of the same physical size & voltage...

the exact mfg. and model # is not important
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