A1200 Accelerator card questions

[Rebel-CD32]

I'd carefully snap the battery off by the legs first for now, but you'll need to get someone to solder the new battery holder on.

As for the DKB board not working there is a common problem these seem to have, as my Mongoose and 1202 and Cammy's Cobra all had this same problem. After cleaning the expansion edge of the A1200 with a pencil eraser you should get a sewing needle, pick up the Cobra and carefully bend the metal wire "teeth" of the expansion connector inwards so when it's connected again it will bite down harder. They seem to recede over time and lose connection occasionally, causing crashes or stopping the machine from booting.

The clock resetting itself after certain games or a bad crash is just something that happens with certain software on certain expansion boards. You can install a small utility which alerts you when the clock has been reset so you can fix it at least.

You can decide which one you like best, this is all I found on Aminet:

http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/ClockCheck1_14
http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/ClockChk13
http://aminet.net/package/util/time/ClockWatcher11
http://aminet.net/package/util/boot/dateinsp
http://aminet.net/package/util/time/RTCheck
http://aminet.net/package/util/time/TimeSwipe

Good luck!