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Subject: Re: CMOS battery on Vivante SE?

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Norman Aragones

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Date Posted: 02:08:58 04/23/00 Sun
In reply to: Brooks Kerry Rownd 's message, "Re: CMOS battery on Vivante SE?" on 17:13:06 04/21/00 Fri

I took a look and found what you described after unscrewing the plate under the keyboard. It looked like a circular disc, half covered by the Intel Mobile Module board. It seemed like the right place for a battery, and I could even read "1220" and "Pan..." etched into the half I could see, but it seemed to be held in place with a metal clasp. I tried to remove it with a grounded pair of tweezers but it wouldn't budge. I stopped tugging when I saw that the clasp might twist off. The system seemed fine after I put everything back together.

Anybody know if this was the CMOS battery, and if so, why I couldn't just move it out?

> I'd like to know, too. If you look into the empty
> removable drive bay, there is something that looks a
> lot like a wafer-thin battery next to the connectors
> the drive plugs into. I have been wondering if the
> battery could be replaced by simply reaching in there
> with a pair of tweezers(?), plucking the old battery
> out and stuffing a new one in? I can't remember if
> there was any kind of restraint other than friction
> holding it in.
>

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