On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 11:23, Lansing, Dan wrote: > Off topic I know... I have recently acquired a Winbook X1 and the BIOS battery is dead...Winbook support was useless other than telling me it was soldered onto the board and I would have to send it in...does anyone out there have any experience with this sort of thing? I have found several links online for Winbook bios batteries...none for this model, but I'm sure I can find somewhere locally to get a battery...and I was unable to find anything on replacing the battery yourself...my soldering skills suck and I would like to find someone to assist me.....respond off list if you are interested in helping and have the skills to do this > > thanks > Dan Lansing Have you had it apart? They probably just told you it was soldered on because they don't want you opening it up. a soldered on battery just seems like a really dumb idea to me. I've had a few laptops apart and I've soldered my own laptop boards but I don't think I'd be comfortable soldering someone else's. Tom Penney <blots at visi.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list