Frustration ends when a dead battery interrupts an important morning or costly replacements become unnecessary. This ...

Q: My computer's clock resets ... dead motherboard battery will reset to Dec. 31, 1969, while a Windows computer in that state may fall back to Jan. 1, 2001.) Your ability to replace this battery ...

These were chunky dual-in-line devices containing clock and non-volatile RAM chips, a crystal, and a lithium battery. The battery was good for about a decade, which was fine for most PCs of the ...