bios

[dannydaniuk]

can anyone tell me how you change the bios battery in award bios P5VX-B thankyou

[gfunkmartin]

You mean the old ECS motherboard? Not real sure...

Just checked the website and couldn't find any info...

Anybody else have any ideas?

[TweakerXP]

maybe this will help.....

But I didn't see a battery ANYWHERE !!??


http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/graphics/l-p5vxb.gif


Good Luck!:confused:

[Mafiosy]

Hmmm, I think bios battaries often sold in computer stores or clock stores.
First open a computer case and put your eyes over the MotherB.
There you should see a battary like in watch just much bigger of a size about "quater dollar" . You just take it and go to the store to get same new one, then put it in with accuracy, theres fragile parts in battary holder.

P.S. Dont forget to put a computer case on , back together. :)

Maf. :cool:

[gfunkmartin]

Guys, I could be mistaken, but since this board is so much older, I don't think that it uses the standard "quarter-size" batteries that we're accustomed to. I think the part marked "RTC" on jap03's picture may be associated with the battery.

Jason

[busrider]

Some older MB's used a few different kinds of these proprietary type devices. One was a Dallas another was an Odum. They are little rectangular boxes plugged into a matching connector slot on the MB. They can be replaced but the problem is finding a replacment, also they probably don't support a four digit year. Check out this link for some info.

http://www.firmware.com/support/y2k/ds12c887.htm


Good luck

[TweakerXP]

Maybe you should think about building you a NEW system?????

[michaeln]

Originally posted by jap03
maybe this will help.....

But I didn't see a battery ANYWHERE !!??


http://www.ecs.com.tw/products/graphics/l-p5vxb.gif


Good Luck!:confused:

I had a look at this and the photograph of the mobo. Saved the photo and loaded it into PAint Shop Pro and enlarged it. Still can't see a battery anywhere on the mobo.

Some (much) older systems had an external battery that plugged into the mobo.

Here's Elitegroup's contact site with addresses and email contact addresses. try messaging them and if you get a reply please post the results as it's killing me to know where they have hidden the battery

http://www.ecs.com.tw/contact/contact.htm

[HRM]

The battery could look like a AA cell battery, cylindrical. It is probably soldered to the board and therefore looks perminant.

[michaeln]

Originally posted by HRM
The battery could look like a AA cell battery, cylindrical. It is probably soldered to the board and therefore looks perminant.

Here - have a look for yourself. here's the mobo from the ECS site

[gfunkmartin]

I think that little black box in the upper left corner has something to do with the battery.

[Imperion1]

gfunkmartin is correct.

[userserver]

Your motherboard has a RTC battery (Real-Time Clock). Rather than replacing the Dallas module, you can purchase an AA or AAA type battery in a rectangular casing. You typically connect one of these to a system by replacing the clear CMOS jumper with the battery connector.

[Peter M]

... and on those Dallas and similar RTC/battery blocks, you can remove the plastic cover and find a battery soldered to the chip under it. Get a suitable replacement, be VERY careful not to bend the pins around during the process (they like to break off the chip), and there you go.

regards, Peter

[userserver]

Look at the detail for BAT REP36 and BAT REP45 at
Replacement Battery (http://www.rt-tech.com/rtt/products/Prices.cfm?Cat=BAT&Pg=RTT%20BAT)

With these batteries no soldering is required (you aren't really replacing the RTC battery).

I've used the 3.6V replacement battery with leads manufactured by Tadrian and the 4.5V replacement battery with leads manufactured Ray-O-Vac. Both plug directly into the pins of the jumper block that is used for clearing cmos. (When you clear cmos, you short out the jumper pins--if you want to maintain settings and the onboard battery is failing, you feed voltage to cmos through the jumper pins.)

I've used velcro to anchor the batteries to the motherboards, but other methods work equally well.

These batteries can be found for less than $10 each. Just get the one that has the appropriate voltage.