What would be the symptoms of a good battery?
I presume it would be whether the clock kept time would be a good indicator.
I fired up my 957 yesterday after a year. Seemed OK, only a few minutes
off.
On 11/20/20 6:06 PM, Stan Sieler wrote:
> Re:
>
>> I may have given some bad information. Stan pointed out to me that the
>> 9x7's have a built in battery for short term power failures. I do know we
>> got the 9x7's first, then upgraded to the 928's very shortly thereafter.
>> It would be interesting if someone did the test today, would the battery
>> even work? Assuming it hasn't been replaced.
>>
>>
> I'd be very very surprised if an original battery in a 9x7 still worked!
>
> I'd also be mildly surprised (and disappointed) to find that anyone is
> still using a 9x7 today ...
> instead of something newer. (Newer machines are incredibly inexpensive,
> and provide a
> lot better performance than most 9x8s, well ... at least for single
> processor models :)
>
> The low-end 9x8s (918, 928, at least) had a hole inside for a battery
> backup ... but there is no
> connector (thus, no way to make a battery useful). I suspect that during
> the R&D phase they hoped
> to have internal battery backup, but the power draw of the newer 9x8 (vs.
> the 9x7) was simply too great
> (*or* the division selling the new HP UPS had something to say about
> allowing customers to not need their product? :)
>
> Stan
>
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