First post, by Excelsior
I have an older 286 motherboard with a barrel battery. Since the barrel battery was dead and started to leak I removed it and cleaned the board.
But before putting it in a computer, my question is the following: will the motherboard function normally without the barrel battery or a more modern (and less dangerous) CMOS battery?
Is there a risk or an inconvenient if I use this motherboard/computer without any CMOS battery at all?
Besides the CMOS data loss (obviously) are there any other problems that could arise?