Re: Internal omnigo battrey?
Jeff Hinman (ust941@edcca4.bgl.ca.boeing.com)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:21:12 -0700
> Hi, Teusday morning my omnigo crashed and i couldnt soft or hard
> boot because i couldnt find a pin and soft booting didnt respond so i
> took out the batterys (both). About 5 min later i put them back in and
> my work wasnt gone! It restarted and went into geos and all my apps
> were still there. That meanes that there must be some kind of
> rechargable backup battery (besides the coin cell) built into the omnigo
>
> THaks
> Jake
>
Most likely this is due to capacitance and SRAM memory threshold. This is quite
common with volatile RAM (some SRAM cards do this also - some for 24 hours or
more). A user has taken apart the Omnigo and has described the contents and did
not mention an additional battery. Any one else?
Jeff Hinman
ust941@edcca4.bgl.ca.boeing.com