Re: CMOS battery

[Tim Connors <tconnors+linuxdebianuser1091505549@astro.swin.edu.au>]

William Ballard <40711.nospam@comcast.net> said on Mon, 2 Aug 2004 20:11:08 -0700:
> 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.

My one is a large button battery (bigger than watch size, and
non-rechargable ~4V Lithium perhaps?).

They don't usually embed batteries in the CMOS (I think), thankfully.


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