Replacing laptop cpu

[Joe Zeff]

On 05/24/2015 10:46 PM, Tim wrote:
> I wonder if they've actually be designed to that, or people have just
> observed that behaviour, and made an assumption.  I've certainly fixed
> up a PC with a new battery, one that exhibited no clock problems.  The
> battery was definitely low, resetting the BIOS parameters didn't help,
> replacing the battery did.

My understanding is that it's intentional, to warn the user *before* the 
battery's dead.  This is what I learned back in the early 80's from my 
hardware geek the first time I had a CMOS clock issue.