Well, as you know, replacing the bios battery could be a problem on an old motherboards. In my case, I modded two RTC instead of buying new ones. That is my experience meshing with this RTCs:
NO SOLID RTC
If we have a Houston Tech RTC, it´s really simply modding it, just pull the lid up...
Hello:
I´m trying to repair this old laptop I got 2 weeks ago. It´s a 466 DX4 probably at 75 mghz. I have all items (battery and power adaptor) but can´t turn it on.
One component on the power board blew up and can´t find any reference of it.
Probably, it could be a resistor o didode, maybe a...