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Eagle 800 Series II Service Manual
Rev. A00
Replacing the Time and Date Battery
When replacing the battery on your CPU board, always be sure to power-down the system first!
DO NOT replace the battery with the power on! As always, when opening your computer chassis,
take proper precautions against electrostatic discharge, which can seriously damage system
components.
The board uses one three-volt lithium battery (part #CR2032) that will last for approximately two years.
To remove the existing battery, which is about the size of a quarter, you must slide it out from under the
top spring contact. It may be necessary to lift the top spring contact slightly to remove the battery from
the plastic well that holds it in place.
Do not bend the spring arm
, or you will lose the contact tension
and the battery backup will be intermittent.
When installing the new battery, make sure the positive (+) side is facing up and the top spring arm
contact is pressing down firmly to hold it in place.
After installing a new battery, the system BIOS setting will be reset to factory defaults. These are not
optimized for the Eagle 800 Series II. See the following section for restoring your BIOS settings to the
optimized settings.
Restoring Your BIOS Settings
Besides the time and date, the Eagle 800’s battery also maintains the system setup parameters and boot
device parameters These are stored in Eagle 800’s on-board BIOS chip. Therefore, when you remove and
replace the battery, your BIOS settings will be lost. After you install the new battery and turn system
power on, you need to access the BIOS Configuration menu by pressing
during POST and restore
your settings. Refer to Appendix A for the optimized settings for the Eagle 800 Series II
.
If you do not use the BIOS configuration menu to restore your settings, the system will drop into standard
factory defaults and boot the Eagle 800 with parameters that are not optimized for the system. Yet, when
it does start to boot, the AlphaShell.Exe will boot the system with AM8000.MON and AM8000.INI as
the system parameters.
Once the system is up and running, log to OPR: and enter the current time and date. Reboot the system to
initialize the system up time.
SSD Chip Removal
The SSD chip is located at U12 on your AM-113-45 Multifunction Coprocessor board, as shown in
Figure 4. The type of socket used for the SSD chip requires a special tool for chip removal. If you ever
need to remove and replace this chip, be sure to use the correct tool, as shown in Figure 5.
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