[ltp] Re: CMOS battery replacement on Thinkpad 600 series (Re: [ltp] Bootable live CD on 600/600X?)

[Jim Harvey]

Charles E Taylor IV wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 13:03:31 +0100
> Burkhard Woelfel <versuchsanstalt@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> 
>>BTW, I've seen a battery for the 770z on Ebay.de once, advertised as
>>new. It  was sold for about 3EUR or so.
> 
> 
> IBM doesn't put the battery for the 770 series in any special containers
> (like the little heatshrink package the 600's battery is in). It literally
> is just a standard battery you can buy from just about anyone that sells
> lithium batteries.  I *think* it's a CR2025, but I don't have my 770Z in
> front of me to check right now.  I had to replace that battery in my old
> 770Z a couple of months ago.
> 

It's a 2016 in a 'Z.  I replaced mine but SuSE still can't pick up the time from 
the hardware.  I think it's a Suse bug.