Hi,
I have an old Gateway 2000 486/33C and I an not able to find a jumper setting to force the board to ignore the soldered on Ni/cad battery. The board has an external 4.5v battery that I assume was dead, so I replaced it with a battery box with 3 AAAs in it, but every time it boots it is still showing a clock failure. The board is a Micronics 09-00081-02 Baby Gemini. I have seen
http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/micindex.htm
which has some jumper settings, but doesn't show one to have the board ignore the internal battery. I did try leaving the machine on for several hours to see if it might charge the ni/cad, but it didn't work. The battery hasn't leaked or anything as far as I can tell. I found a number of other sites that show basically the same manual as my link above. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
I have another of the identical machine, and it will not post, or even issue a beep code, I'm not sure what to do about that, I tried pulling all of its cards and RAM, still not even a beep code.
I have an old Gateway 2000 486/33C and I an not able to find a jumper setting to force the board to ignore the soldered on Ni/cad battery. The board has an external 4.5v battery that I assume was dead, so I replaced it with a battery box with 3 AAAs in it, but every time it boots it is still showing a clock failure. The board is a Micronics 09-00081-02 Baby Gemini. I have seen
http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/micindex.htm
which has some jumper settings, but doesn't show one to have the board ignore the internal battery. I did try leaving the machine on for several hours to see if it might charge the ni/cad, but it didn't work. The battery hasn't leaked or anything as far as I can tell. I found a number of other sites that show basically the same manual as my link above. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.
I have another of the identical machine, and it will not post, or even issue a beep code, I'm not sure what to do about that, I tried pulling all of its cards and RAM, still not even a beep code.