MCB Systems » cmos http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog Custom Software and I.T. Services Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Hallmark Sound Card Yields CMOS Battery! http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog/2009/09/hallmark-sound-card-yields-cmos-battery/ http://www.mcbsys.com/techblog/2009/09/hallmark-sound-card-yields-cmos-battery/#comments Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:30:00 +0000 Mark Berry /mark/post/Hallmark-Sound-Card-Yields-CMOS-Battery.aspx Feeling proud of myself today in a McGiver-ish kind of way ;) .

You know those semi-fun, semi-annoying Hallmark birthday cards with sound? The ones that make you wonder whether it's worth spending five bucks on a birthday card?

Well I was about to toss one today when I thought, hmm, I live in California, I'm not supposed to toss batteries in the trash. So I ripped open the card to pull out the battery and lo and behold, it's a Newsun CR2032 3V Lithium battery. CR2032 is the size of the CMOS battery in all the Dell computers I've checked. Sure enough, it's working fine as a replacement in an old Dimension desktop.

Woo-hoo! Free CMOS battery! Now, I wonder what I should to with the miniature speaker that was in the card…

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