Posts by spacedummy

Did you take out the CPU? I had trouble starting my laptop after taking it apart. I had not locked in the CPU properly. Now it works fine but, my volume control isn't working so I have to take it all apart again to fix that.

I was wrong about the battery being under the mother board, it is in fact under the keyboard. To get the strip off ( theplastic part that has the quick start buttons and power buttons ) you have to unscrew the screws on the underside...

http://www.laptopparts101.com/cmos-rtc-battery/ look That is the kind of battery we have.

Thanks I did good Prof is still talking to class. we break in about half an hour

consulted with my professor, he thinks you are right about diagnosing a dead battery because of the BIOS. He says you can get a new battery that plugs into the board. It sounds very complicated. You have to be careful where you cut the...

I was just talking to my hardware instructor at my college. He warned me that if you try to unsolder the old CMOS battery it will explode. So DO NOT unsolder the battery. He is talking about the older kind of soldered battery. The kind...

OKAY i GOT IT. You get to it from under the keyboard of the computer. It is located, probably under some tape, near the wireless card. To the left and up. It is soldered on and you have to unsolder it and resolder the new one.

The cmos battery is weird on this model ( HP Pavillioan ZV5000) You have to lift the keyboard of the computer and close to the wireless card ( to the left and up ) there is a small round battery with a white plastic ring holding it....

exactly what I'm doing now. I have yet to etract the motherboard. The manuals either omit the cmos location or it tells of a different location than on my machine. I will be back when I find it. Once I opened the case I was in deep.

yes yes yes, I have been searching all day and bingo landed here. I was nervous about prying off the cpu from the heatsink and now ready to tackle it. Thanks guys for posting!!!! I'll be back to let you know how it went. Next thing is...