Howdy, just a wee question?? – 2698 days old

[mickoz]

Hi all. I was going to post this in the hardware section but being new here
I wasn't sure where abouts it should go so.........

An old system landed in my lap and I was thinking of setting it up to
crunch. Its got an AMD processor (350 mghz) and 256 mb's of ram so should
be able to. There had been a short in the front of it and a bit of a fire by the
looks of a few of the wires there. I stripped them out and got the old gal to
fire up so have been playing since.

Now I was getting to the point of formatting and loading a fresh OS when
something grabbed my attention during my many reboots. The cmos was
reporting a checksum error each boot up. Yeah I know I should have picked
this up earlier but didn't. So thinking that maybe the battery was stuffed
I thought I would take a look and low and behold I dont think it has one.

Take a gander at the picture below and to me it looks like it is missing in
action. So question before I start hunting around to search what battery
should have been there can it run ok without one. Like it will only be crunching
and the jumper appears to be set now to clear it each time (not sure on that
though). Or should I get one.

Oh I should explain with the picture that the top screen is a pic of the one I
am working on, the other is a pic of the board off the net.

[floppybootstomp]

Yep, looks like you need a battery in there

And set the jumper back to 'normal' (not for reset or clear).

I'm looking at a battery cell I took out of an old Abit board right now and it's 3V and number: CR2032. The flat side is the + volts and the side curved on the edges is the 0 volts.

You should be able to get one at any shop selling a good battery selection or an electronics store. And they don't cost much.

[mickoz]

So Flops these batteries are similar hey. Like I am not sure what you mean
by an Abit board, this is a Epox EP-MVP3c motherboard. Would the battery
be the same as what you have there?

Sorry to be a dummy and thanks for the help.

[floppybootstomp]

Abit is just another board manufacturer's name.

All the battery cells I've taken out of boards or replaced, of that design, have been the same, so I'd guess that's the one you want.

[mickoz]

Ok cool, thanks.

Hey since your here and posting anyway. Would a sofware firewall (say ZA) and
the hardware firewall router be enough protection for a non-updated version of
XP Sp1. Like I just wanted to make this simple, it is only going to crunch. I would
put a linux version on there but I have no experience with it and dont
want to learn it right at the moment. XP I am favouring as it is eay to network.
So would something like that compromise my network or not?

[Tuffies Son]

I run an older board crunching too, and I'm not sure your specs will support an XP install. 98SE works fine curnching, & if you can get that on there, I think it would be preferrable for you. Good Luck Mick

[Zachary]

The 350 processor and 256mb of ram will run XP, but be aware that an installation of XP with the service packs and secrity patches takes up over 7 gigs of drive space. That might be a factor if the hard drive is smaller.

[mickoz]

Thanks for the input guys, will pick up that battery if I can tomorrow and see
how it goes from there.