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From: howardl@wb3ffv.UUCP (Howard Leadmon )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Battery Replacement for PC/AT (potential bug)
Summary: Does anybody know what the part is ??
Message-ID: <689@wb3ffv.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jul 88 16:31:54 GMT
References: <11234@emerald.BBN.COM> <1452@spdcc.COM>
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Organization: Fast Computer Service, Inc. - Middle River, MD
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In article <1452@spdcc.COM>, eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
> beware -- some AT clones give the symptoms of bad battery even 
> though their battery is good.  the problem is a buggy motorola
> part that made it into lots of AT clones -- it manages to blow out
> the CMOS memory on power down occasionally...

    Hello All,

 The above mentions a possible BAD part in some AT clones on the market,
so now the question is, does anybody know what part this is ?? Also is a
replacement part avalible that can be installed to correct the problem.
I have seen several machines do this, and always chalked it up to a power
line glitch...


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