Questions purchasing a factory second

[James3]

Hi,

I am looking at the “Factory Seconds” FW13 11th gen.
Does anyone know if the RTC mod/fix will have been done, or will I have to do the difficult mod?

Rework Instructions for 11th Gen Mainboards to enable powering the RTC circuit from the main battery

[image] We’ve developed an RTC Battery Substitute module that can sit in place of the coin cell battery to keep the RTC circuit powered. Note that this does require soldering a single wire on the top side of the Mainboard. We are currently preparing the process for requesting this module, but have published the guide for it in the meantime. If you have an 11th Gen system or Mainboard, you can now reach out to support to request a free RTC Battery Substitute module. To make the request proc…