Little tip I just thought of

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2004 in Hardware
I can't be the *only* one here that has extra motherboards sitting around. So I'm putting some of mine away, and I realized something; take out the CMOS batteries.

Why? Because alkaline batteries inevitably start to leak at some point, and you don't want them doing that on your motherboards. Just a thought...

Comments

  • mcwcmcwc Vancouver, BC Member
    edited September 2004
    Alkaline? All I see in my systems are lithum button cells. Do lithum cells even leak?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited September 2004
    A lot of them are lithiums, but I've got some alkalines too. And yes, lithium cells can leak, they just generally take a much longer time to do so than alkalines.
  • madmatmadmat
    edited September 2004
    If you want to be "trick" you can replace your CMOS batteries with silver cells and have a battery that's rated for 7 years.
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