>> 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.
Yep. I’d never try and fasten tabs to batteries, they’re flash welded rather than soldered. Someone on hackaday reckoned they had a procedure to do it but fitting holders instead is so much easier. > 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. -- Adrian Graham Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk
