Re: F*cking Intel

On 4/24/2025 2:06 AM, Martin Brown wrote:

It is called built in obsolescence and user applies the coup de grace!
(unless they are particularly observant and spot the polarity)
 Reassemble and it doesn't work at all. Buy new computer - Intel wins!

I was thinking of how they could have indicated the correct connector,
wire length (what if too short?) and polarity.  I decided all they could
have done was assign an INTEL part number to an assembly -- that they
never actually SOLD!  Then, People's Battery Factory #245 could just
claim "compatible with Intel XYZ".

Opposite polarity vastly overpriced batteries are a mainstay of certain products. My oil tank gauge is a prime example. £40 for what is when you take it apart nothing other than 3x AA Duracells inside a copper pipe!

Ah, but it is likely a SPECIAL kind of copper!  <rolls eyes>

Autoconfig settings on boot up and an internet connection means that you can set the time and date other ways today. The failed battery can usually be ignored if you have an internet connection. You do need to sync PDQ almost nothing else works if you claim to being in 1/1/1970.

Apparently, the board settings are NOT stored in FLASH but, rather,
BBRAM.  So, it doesn't even know HOW to boot without preserving
that information.
<shrug>  Not the end of the world but a particular waste of time.
If I hadn't got the NUCs for free, I wouldn't have bothered:
"These are defective.  I want a refund!"