Re: CMOS battery
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 12:46:23PM +1000, Tim Connors wrote:
> At one point in time, I swear I found a program that reported the
> health of the CMOS battery in any computer. You just called this
> program, and it gave a few levels like "battery healthy", and "battery
> poor" (maybe it queried /dev/rtc or looked at the memory location
> where cmos is).
>
> Was I dreaming, or does such a thing exist? It's not in any of the
> obvious places I have checked...
Do modern motherboards even have CMOS batteries? I remember replacing a
watch-battery sized battery on my 8086 mobo, but that's about the last
time I thought about it.
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