[ltp] Dead R51

[Hunter Fuller]

On  07 May 2006, at 2:48 AM, David A. Desrosiers wrote:

>
>> An absolutely cold boot I imagine. So when it reboots it will  
>> reset _everything_ to the factory defaults.
>
> 	More accurately, it flushes the capacitors that the CMOS button- 
> cell battery holds active, so that it falls back to the defaults,  
> as if your CMOS battery had wiped out.
>
> 	I have this problem, my 1-year-old T42p has an absolutely dead  
> CMOS battery. When/if the main battery runs out (which happens  
> quite often with my 9-cell batteries now), my BIOS settings are  
> reset to blank values (no date, no time, peripheral defaults, etc.)
But I keep the time on mine when I do it! Hrm... confusing... I  
thought it just reset something because of the way it has no effect  
on settings... but if it does for others then I dunno...
>
>
> David A. Desrosiers
> desrod@gnu-designs.com
> http://gnu-designs.com
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