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* Range clock - Disconnect it! - 2 messages, 1 author
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TOPIC: Range clock - Disconnect it!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/3e2a7ad7ec279de4?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Jun 6 2008 10:23 pm
From: don@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein)
In article <HsSdnaHxiedwYtTVnZ2dnUVZ_r6rnZ2d@comcast.com>, Bob F wrote:
>
>"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
>news:4rw1k.3800$xZ.1621@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com...
>> Don Klipstein wrote:
>>
>>> My computer has an Asus A7N8X-E "deluxe" motherboard for the AMD "Athlon
>>> XP" processor. That is maybe 5 years old. I got it the same day I got a
>>> "3200+" processor. The battery is removable and replaceable. I have that
>>> computer on a power strip that I often turn off.
>>
>> Asus is a top of the line motherboard, so you'd expect them to have a
>> replaceable battery. The boards sold for use in name brand computers
>> are decontented to save ever penny possible, literally (I used to work
>> for a very large Taiwanese motherboard company's U.S. office). This
>> includes using a very low capacity back-up battery, and soldering it in.
>
>I've seen a lot of motherboards, and I can't remember ever seeing a soldered in
>battery.
I remember seeing one out of dozens of motherboards. I forget what the
motherboard was.
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Fri, Jun 6 2008 10:26 pm
From: don@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein)
In article <slrng4k6qv.2me.don@manx.misty.com>, I, Don Klipstein wrote:
>In article <HsSdnaHxiedwYtTVnZ2dnUVZ_r6rnZ2d@comcast.com>, Bob F wrote:
>>
>>"SMS" <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in message
>>news:4rw1k.3800$xZ.1621@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>> Don Klipstein wrote:
>>>
>>>> My computer has an Asus A7N8X-E "deluxe" motherboard for the AMD "Athlon
>>>> XP" processor. That is maybe 5 years old. I got it the same day I got a
>>>> "3200+" processor. The battery is removable and replaceable. I have that
>>>> computer on a power strip that I often turn off.
>>>
>>> Asus is a top of the line motherboard, so you'd expect them to have a
>>> replaceable battery. The boards sold for use in name brand computers
>>> are decontented to save ever penny possible, literally (I used to work
>>> for a very large Taiwanese motherboard company's U.S. office). This
>>> includes using a very low capacity back-up battery, and soldering it in.
>>
>>I've seen a lot of motherboards, and I can't remember ever seeing a
>>soldered in battery.
>
> I remember seeing one out of dozens of motherboards. I forget what the
>motherboard was.
>
> - Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
Now I think I remember: I think it was on a 486 motherboard that I got
in 1994 in a no name computer pieced together by a small computer store.
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
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