Hi Guys - it's not often that I dare look inside a PC but when I last did I noticed that the motherboard of my PII Dell machine (1999 vintage) had only a CR2032 (or similar) backup battery on the motherboard.
Some years ago I had a problem when the rechargeable battery inside my old 486sx PC failed with the result that each time I needed to turn it on I had to enter certain bios information concerned with things like the hard drive type, sectors etc etc etc (all gobbledegook to me). This was a real pain until a friend fitted a new battery which did the trick.
Thinking ahead, fearing the worst and having had several power cuts lately, I'm wondering what I do when the lithium battery on the Dell PC fails. Will it create a similar problem with the Bios? If so, where do I find the information I will need to get the PC up and running again?
Of course these things may well have moved on a lot in the time since all this happened before but I like to be prepared for the worst if I can
Thanks in anticipation
