On 05/12/2019 00:36, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
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The button cell looks very much like it is soldered in. It's approximately 12mm
in diameter. I've read numerous warnings not to go to near a button cell with a
soldering iron so I'm not really keen to do that, especially as I don't know
for sure that it will fix the problem.
I'm curious what the reason is for that warning. After all, the thing was
soldered in to begin with; it certainly won't mind the heat. You'd want to
make sure you don't short it out while doing it, of course; some insulating
tape might help with that.
There are plenty of warnings, e.g.:
http://www.cr2032.co/soldering-article.html
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!
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini
anto...@acarlini.com
