[dundee] Re thunkpad t43

[james_riach]

Hi Lee, I had a problem of similar dimensions on a thunk A20, this was
resolved with a new bios battery, (Actually a used cr1032 coin cell with
wires soldered to it). Apparently the real time clock is a
microcontroller handling back ground hardware resources and power
management. if it F***s up then off goes the power to some peripheral
like the dma, graphics card, agp, pci, ide with varying degrees of
wonkyness/microsoft. your flexiblity problem may be initiating a restart
or wakeup in the nethers and reaching depths not normally tickled.
Anyway a bit of sellotape and the wires from the old battery on a 3 volt
coin cell may be worth a try. If you try soldering keep it brief these
batteries thermally runaway once a knee temperature is reached either
exploding or splitting and going on fire