Laptop help (fault message)

[Gaz_]

Howdy

Gf's laptop has developed a fault on start up, shows this message on start up

Not the best I know..... probably wants binning, however we are not CS high rollers.

Pressing F2, boots up ok. This only happens after not using it for a day. Now as I understand there is a battery to hold time/date etc, do we think it might just be this?

Any help appreciated

 

[iain187]

yes probably , google the make and model + how to change CMOS battery and some weird geek has probably done a blog with pictures on what you need to do if youre lucky

 

[Lou]

Have you tried changing the date and time in the CMOS to see if that resolves it?

 

[Dink]

i'd say the battery has died tbh

 

[Gaz_]

This CMOS battery like a watch battery? We have a similar thing for holding data in NVM on alarm systems

*yeah tried changing time/date before, just defaults back to this after a day


* ah googled it, so not like a watch battery then!

 

[Dink]

probably a cr2032 lithium battery

classed as a button cell iirc

 

[Gaz_]

Aye found one

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ADVENT-71...rds_CPUs_CA&hash=item3cb9eae0be#ht_1415wt_828

(i'll get a new one though)



Cheers for the help

 

[Adam.]

Defo the battery on the motherboard.

Cheap and easy fix. Get this on some of the old servers at work running legacy programs!

 

[Gaz_]

Cool beans!

Right found it in the laptop, nice and easy, right under a cover. So as it looks like the one in the link above, am I best buying one pre made, or can I butcher one up? I can use a soldering iron, is anything stopping me getting the right cell, and soldering on the wires off the original lead, tape it up, jobs a goodun???

 

[Adam.]

Just buy one lol.

 

[Gaz_]

aye, did think that after i wrote it!

 

[Dink]

sod paying £10 for a battery the size of a pound coin

i bet if you took the heat shrink off your old one there will be a cr2032 cell in there