On 04/23/14 23:47, Michael Hennebry wrote: <<>> > I'd already got the battery out. > My apologies for the delay in the announcement. not a problem here. i enjoyed the bellow listed search that i ran. > An hour or two ago I replaced said battery with one > scavenged from the dead body of its predecessor. > Success. > I've ascertained that the motherboard retains > time between power plug-pullings. some mainboards have a capacitor paralleled with battery to allow quick change with out loss of cmos settings. i have even seen some mainboards with a small tubular shaped 'instrument' type lithium cell to maintain voltage while button battery is changed. glad to hear you have battery changed. i did some more searching after my last post to thread and i would have replied with it, had i not had to go 'out an bout'. this is what i found, and which i had found last night. i ran another ixquick.com search and this time i changed search term to just "cmos battery holder". from this new search, i found a link which led to a page at; http://search.blekko.com/ where, after several attempts, lead to page; https://blekko.com/#?q=cmos+battery+holder which shows 6 views of battery holders to right side of page. a middle click on group at top left, lead to; https://blekko.com/#?q=cmos%20battery%20holder&images=1 where top left pic shows similar holder to what you show. a middle click on pic lead to; http://www.componex-electronics.com/files/BatteryHolderCR2032.jpg from which i got a firm understanding of mechanics of holder. next i found another link to a pic of above holder mounted to a pcb that gives better understanding of how tab locates to battery; http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/img/battery_upright.jpg from this, i how can see how tab is moved in direction of battery + side to allow battery removal. so, does all this confirm what you found? -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g . _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos