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comda

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Resurrecting a Pentium 1 machine
« on: December 18, 2014, 02:25:20 PM »
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Its rather been a while since i've posted here but since Exams have been finished im looking to do a few projects. What I have is an Old Pentium 1 machine. So old the CMOS battery is one saldered onboard. My issue is everytime the machine boots i get forced into Bios it gives mes a CMOS battery low error. But once in the bios i set the time and date as well as the drives (in the photo below) to be Auto detect and yet after Saving and exit they reset to what you see below. I got this machine to bypass this error once before a few years back but have no clue how to do it now. SO i cant get passed the bios and even if i do it only sees the floppy drive. nothing else. Any suggestions?

Pentium 1 166mhz
40mb RAm
3gb seagate hard drive

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Re: Resurrecting a Pentium 1 machine
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2014, 09:27:06 PM »
" Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist should have his head examined. "

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Re: Resurrecting a Pentium 1 machine
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2015, 08:41:17 PM »
i know this topic is from a month ago but where would find still find one of these Socketed RTC chips? My system has the removable one. And thanks for the link i now know at least what im looking for.