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    Averatec 3220 CMOS battery

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by dmagee2004, Jul 29, 2008.

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    Greetings - new to this forum (and can't find the darn search feature!), but am wondering if anyone else out there has had a CMOS battery die. My trusty 3220, which since 2004 has never failed me, died a sudden death recently. Started with some weird incomplete boots, inability to get into Safe Mode, etc. Thought it might be the HD, but when I tried to boot of CD to run some scans, even that failed, so am now looking at CMOS battery. Voltmeter shows 3.15 V on it, and it's soldered in. Anyone know about removing/replacing it, or if that's even a good place to start trying to fix the problem?

    I actually put another HD in this evening and got through all three restore CDs OK, so was thinking that it was indeed an HD problem. Then it hung as I was setting up XP, and I've not been able to get it going again since.

    Any and all help appreciated!

    Thanks!
    Darrin
     
    dmagee2004, Jul 29, 2008
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