Originally Posted by
maver1ck
I don't know that I would say there is a "rule" about how to replace the batteries. I have had to reflash boards for people that have tried every trick in the book (with power on, using jumpers, soldering another battery, etc.), and although these all sound plausible, from what I've seen, it seems to fail more often than succeed. Maybe that is just because the people doing this are end users that don't ordinarily work with electronics, but from my experience, it's easier if I just have the boards sent to me to take care of it.
At this point, it sounds more like you have an issue with your hard drive not being recognized than anything else. If the CMOS date and time on the WS board was lost, it is likely everything was, which should have defaulted the hard drive setting to Auto Detect (which is what it should be for the factory hard drive), but you should verify that this is set properly for your hard drive. Since you most likely had to remove the hard drive when changing the battery, you should also verify connections to the WS Board and Hard Drive (IDE and Power).
Once you get your BIOS to recognize the hard drive, send me a PM with your e-mail address and I'll dig out settings for your WS board. For anyone else thinking about changing their WS battery, ideally, these should just be documented before attempting to change the battery so it can be reconfigured afterwards.
Hard drive by default should be wired as Primary Master.. Boot order isn't critical, but there really isn't a reason to boot the control from anything other than the hard drive, so all others should be disabled if the BIOS version allows it.