Ace & Security - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Sep 1999

In a message dated 09/28/1999 5:56:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:

...
  Well, what if the NVRAM is one of those Dallas devices
with the battery, 
  clock/NVRAM chip and crystal encapsulated in the same package. No easy 
  way to pull a jumper and clear those. 
This may be true in some cases, but just as a friendly FYI, I recently 
encountered a motherboard with the "all-in-one" device which you describe.  
After a lot of eyeballing and headscratching I located a "null jumper" near 
the Dallas device -- that is, a plastic jumper which did _not_ short the 
pins.  Momentarily replacing this with a standard jumper did in fact 
discharge the CMOS.

Regards,

Glen Goodwin
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