From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Sat, 5/24/2025 2:56 AM, Jeff Layman wrote:   
   > On 23/05/2025 23:38, Paul wrote:   
   >   
   >> Fix your CMOS battery (CR2032 in a socket, on a desktop,   
   >> CR2032 on a cable on a laptop).   
   >   
   > Not so simple on a Clevo laptop. For some reason they bury the CMOS battery   
   deep   
   > inside under the keyboard, and you've got to remove the motherboard to get   
   to it!   
   > If /only/ it were on a cable and accessible...   
   > eg    
   >   
      
   The record for "cool-ness in a battery replacement", is when I told one   
   USENETter where a battery was, on the bottom of some piece of shit,   
   I showed a picture. Never expecting the person would use the info. Because   
   disassembly was going to be no fun, and the area in question was plastic,   
   he took some sort of hole cutter, and just cut out the facade in the desired   
   area (dead reckoning) and changed out the CR2032 (3.2mm thick 3V battery).   
   He didn't need a screwdriver, but that's a pretty dangerous way to   
   work on electronics. Maybe a hot knife would work :-) :-)   
      
   The purpose of the shrink-wrapped CR2032 and the welded twisted pair   
   on it, two pin connector on the end, is it is easy to tuck into the   
   packaging, as long as there is some 3D area with enough volume to house   
   it. It avoids needing space for a CR2032 socket.   
      
   There are also "toaster style" sockets for CR2032, but those   
   are only used on desktops, and aren't too common.   
      
      Paul   
      
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