After groping through papers in a moving box, I found the user's guide for the motherboard. Amazing: something I kept actually proved useful! It's a ASUS Sabertooth Z77, bought in early 2013. Well, no index, no mention of battery in the table of contents. I skimmed through once, no hint of battery. I went back to the diagram of the motherboard, grabbed the magnifying glass, and behold - in very teeny print, a circle labelled "Lithium cell CMOS power". Rick Stevens said in another topic posting "Memory is the second thing to go, but I can't remember the first!". Maybe vision is the first thing to go? Y'all are correct: the motherboard does have a battery. The ASUS website showed how to change the battery, but that's all. Oh yes: it's a CR2032 3 volt Lithium ion battery as some of you said. I'm not really concerned about the $ cost of a new battery. I am concerned about BIOS settings disappearing the instant the battery comes out, and therefore what else I might have to do before and after the battery change. This seems like another high risk task. I think the user's guide mentioned a way to copy BIOS to a flash stick, and read BIOS from a flash stick. I'll have to study this properly before I actually do anything. I did not see any indication of battery state in the BIOS display. I'll have to install the chrony package and give it a try. Is there a Fedora command to display the appropriate BIOS settings that I may have to restore after replacing the battery? thanks, Bill. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
