[SunRescue] Dead Sparc NVRAMS

Bran Tregare rescue at sunhelp.org
Tue Jun 5 03:53:23 CDT 2001


the manufacturers claim that they won't, but i've had plenty of experience 
otherwise.

At 04:21 PM 6/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
> >Yes you may include it. Lithium is highly corrosive and i've had to replace
> >many PWWCWW mainboards, it wicks out through the traces/wiring, eating it
> >as it goes along and then finally when it hits the mainboard it will eat
> >through the traces and eventually destroy the mainboard.
>
>Wow.  I've seen that with nicads before, especially in industrial controls
>and really old mobos.  I've never seen a lithium cell do anything like what
>you've described.
>
>
>newell
>
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