On 20 Jul 2012, at 22:40, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Mark Benson
<md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think $80 for an untested A500 without
power supply is expensive.
Agreed.
Or worse still if it's got a RTC the battery
may have leaked and damaged
the logic board.
The RTC battery is on the memory expansion module. They still leak
and damage the board, but it's not the main board, it's a replaceable
board.
That depends if it's a 500 or a 500+, the 500+ had it on the main logic board and are
well known for battery leakage damage. The first thing you should EVER do with a 500+ is
pull the lid of and clip out the battery if it's still the original one, regardless of
wether it's leaked. If it hasn't it will.
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