Re: IIgs Battery

[dog_cow@macgui.com (D Finnigan)]

ict@ccess wrote:
> On May 23, 7:46 am, Stavros Karatsoridis <skara...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On May 23, 8:07 am, roughana <andrew.roug...@writeme.com> wrote:
>>
>> > After listening to Open Apple podcast #15 and hearing Mike's tale of
>> > Randy's IIgs battery leaking, I was a bit spooked and have pulled out
>> > my IIgs motherboards to check them.
>> > I'm going to pull the batteries from each (they can't be working any
>> > more).
>> > But I'm wondering what will happen without any battery in the
>> > machine.
>> > I know the battery ram settings and time are lost but is that it?
>> > I've read the FAQ and done a search here, but have not found too many
>> > mentions of this.
>> > It appears that the IIgs does work with no battery connected at all,
>> > but is this detrimental in some way?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Andrew
>>
>> It doesn't appear to be detrimental, however it does become a pain to
>> have to change all the settings each time you turn the machine on,
>> especially if you have lots of cards in your machine. With the ROM 3
>> boards just get a new battery and pop it in. With the ROM 1 you can
>> leave some small length of the leads after clipping the battery off
>> and then connect a new battery in its place. (three AA batteries in
>> series in a holder with alligator clips works pretty well as a
>> replacement).
> 
> Instead of going into the control panel and resetting all the
> settings, there is a program call batrammer on asimov to save and
> restore your control panel settings to and from disk.

I use a CDev called Lithium.

http://macgui.com/downloads/?file_id=24771

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