[Techtoolslist] 9100FT RTC

[Tony Jones]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2022, 2:04 AM Kevit Desai <kevitdesai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes the Dallas chip is on the SCSI card.
>  I tried an external battery hack as well as a replacement / equivalent
> -Dallas 12887, the message : real time clock not initialized is the same in
> both cases, and I am unable to manually reset  or enter information.
> I am unable to access the hard drive, and therefore unable to boot.
>

I just want to be clear what is happening.  Before you changed anything you
were getting an RTC failure message but the system continued to boot
normally.  Correct?

Since you made the above changes the system now hangs after displaying the
RTC message?

The same happens if you try to force a floppy boot using F2 F4?

I have no personal experience with the NVRAM.