4 Dec
2019
4 Dec
'19
5:17 p.m.
Many years ago
I removed the soldered coin cell from the control board of the Compaq 7000 series and
replaced it with a 2032 coin cell holder, worked nicely so I can?t see why it wouldn?t
work in this DECivetti monstrosity.
Well I suppose removing it means unsoldering the two tabs from the motherboard rather
than unsoldering the tabs from the cell, so maybe I'll give that a go. Then I could
work out what the battery is, get a suitable holder and solder that in. It would, however, be much more useful if a manual
turned up and I could just perform a system reset and get past the password that way!
I wish I could help. I only ever worked on those when they were new.
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Adrian Graham
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