First post, by CapitanOdessa
Hello! I hope you're good!
I have a PCChips M560 Rev.3.1A I want to restore, and make it usable without the worry that it might just blow one of these days. I bought it pretty cheap, about 2 US dollars in my currency, and I was pretty surprised when I managed to boot it up and get into the BIOS. I didn't test it throughly, mostly because I was scared the whole time it could break or something, it had been stored inside a box for quite a long time, at least that's what the vendor said.
The point is, it has a socket, and a battery that's dead, the type that is inside those modules with clock and everything. I want to replace it, but I found only one guy that sold this type of thing, and it doesn't look quite the same. Instead of VIA, it is a DALLAS, and since it is quite expensive, I'd rather ask here instead of just buying something that could end up being useless. Sorry for quality of the pictures, my phone is a potato.
Upside down Motherboard
Close up to the module
The socket (Yay! I won't have to desolder it!)
What I would be buying
The location of the module is quite awful, it takes some space for PCI cards. Anyway, what do you guys think? I got to read the specs, but I will be honest, I don't understand much of it and the diagrams I found, both had different words on some pins. I was also planning on recapping the whole thing, but I'll probably make a post once I have the tools to do so...
Thanks in advance!
