Ace & Security

From: Glenatacme_at_aol.com <(Glenatacme_at_aol.com)>
Date: Tue Sep 28 21:40:57 1999

In a message dated 09/28/1999 5:56:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk writes:

> Well, what if the NVRAM is one of those Dallas devices with the battery,
> clock/NVRAM chip and crystal encapsulated in the same package. No easy
> way to pull a jumper and clear those.

This may be true in some cases, but just as a friendly FYI, I recently
encountered a motherboard with the "all-in-one" device which you describe.
After a lot of eyeballing and headscratching I located a "null jumper" near
the Dallas device -- that is, a plastic jumper which did _not_ short the
pins. Momentarily replacing this with a standard jumper did in fact
discharge the CMOS.

Regards,

Glen Goodwin
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Received on Tue Sep 28 1999 - 21:40:57 BST