First post, by Repo Man11
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Getting ready to install Win98, and it booted as normal, but I realized the speaker didn't beep, and it had a POST message saying the brand new CMOS battery had failed? It turned out that the wire had come off one of the case speaker's solder joints and gone to ground, and now the CMOS settings are lost as soon as you turn off the PSU. There is a small cylindrical component next to the CMOS battery - is this a fuse? The board is labeled X2 by this component. It has no continuity, but it also has no voltage to either side. On another motherboard I have handy, that same component (or nearly identical) has continuity.
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