Dear manufacturers I have big news for you: Batteries don’t last forever. This is nobody’s fault. But it is a fact. Sooner or later any battery will be drained. This is also true for low-power devices like clocks and SRAM. A CR2032 will last some years. After this it has to be replaced.
Why do I have to disassemble a complete laptop just to get to the BIOS battery? What were they thinking?! No, I will not throw away a working computer because of a dead BIOS battery! Thank you for the “TERRA MOBILE 2103 – MODEL M66SE”!
I just unscrewed a million screws, disconnected a bunch of ribbon and antenna cables just to reach the battery. And guess what I found?
I can’t help myself but to think about the little Brothers Grimm fairytale: The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack. [Wikipedia]
I don’t have one of these batteries with cable and plug. Last time I met one of these I cut off the cables and soldered them to a CR2032 battery holder, wrapped everything in insulating tape and put it back into the laptop. Works. Hope I can fit a battery holder into this machine as well. Then to reassemble this piece ofsh electronics…
Edit:
The computer is working again. Not enough space to put a battery holder for CR2032 there. I used CR2032 for SNES games to solder the cables on the tabs and wrapped this into insulating tape. Looks almost like before.
Why do I have to disassemble a complete laptop just to get to the BIOS battery? What were they thinking?! No, I will not throw away a working computer because of a dead BIOS battery! Thank you for the “TERRA MOBILE 2103 – MODEL M66SE”!
I just unscrewed a million screws, disconnected a bunch of ribbon and antenna cables just to reach the battery. And guess what I found?
I can’t help myself but to think about the little Brothers Grimm fairytale: The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack. [Wikipedia]
I don’t have one of these batteries with cable and plug. Last time I met one of these I cut off the cables and soldered them to a CR2032 battery holder, wrapped everything in insulating tape and put it back into the laptop. Works. Hope I can fit a battery holder into this machine as well. Then to reassemble this piece of
Edit:
The computer is working again. Not enough space to put a battery holder for CR2032 there. I used CR2032 for SNES games to solder the cables on the tabs and wrapped this into insulating tape. Looks almost like before.
