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First post, by Dave Bursik

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Hello.
I have problem with motherboard Unichip 386WB. I tried to test this motherboard by booting to the BIOS, but if I turn the computer ON, leds blink on the keyboard and then I get theese messages.

CMOS checksum failure
CMOS display type mismatch
Keyboard error

Any idea what is wrong? Because of keyboard error I cannot go to the BIOS menu. 😕

Pictures are attached.

Thanks.

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Reply 1 of 10, by debs3759

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Could the errors be fixed by replacing the missing battery?

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Reply 3 of 10, by konc

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I have the same with a really tiny amount of battery leak and it needed a trace repair with the exact same symptom. So yes pay attention to the area around the battery, bottom side included.
I hope you fix it, it's a pretty fast motherboard.

Reply 4 of 10, by Dave Bursik

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Hi,
many thanks for your help. I check again all way repaired before and found one problem around choke L4. I repaired it. Now it is working 😀 Im really happy 😀
Photo is attached.

By the way .. Does anyone have an original User´s manual for this motherboard? I found this link where the manual could be downloaded, but I don't think people are active anymore.
http://www.amoretro.de/2012/02/unichip-367c-u … otherboard.html

Thanks a lot again,
David

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Reply 5 of 10, by pentiumspeed

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I can see a solder trail shorting two leads of transistor exactly besides the battery holder.

Cheers,

Great Northern aka Canada.

Reply 6 of 10, by Dave Bursik

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2020-11-18, 20:06:

I can see a solder trail shorting two leads of transistor exactly besides the battery holder.

Cheers,

Hi, thanks for your replay. Can you mark it on the photo?
Thanks, David

Reply 9 of 10, by debs3759

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I can see two potential shorts

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