[ale] What is VBat in lm-sensors?

[Jim]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 10:11 -0500, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
>   
>> Jim Popovitch wrote:
>>     
>>> Is it the BIOS battery?
>>>       
>> Yup!  should be around 3 volts.
>>     
>
> The sensors command (lm-sensors), on two identical boxes, report one box
> as +0.51V and the other as +0.03V.  However, the boxes work fine and
> reboot (warm restart) without problems.  So, are the BIOS battery bad or
> is lm-sensors not configured properly?
>
> Tia, 
>
> -Jim P. 
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Perhaps the hardware doesn't support it?

Jim.