Difficulty

Easy

Steps

4

Time Required

                          15 minutes

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1

  • BIOS Battery
  • 4 steps

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Introduction

What you need

Step 1

              Unscrew the laptop keyboard to access the bios battery
  • Just unscrew 4 screws to loose the KB, there are plenty guides / video on Google so I won’t go in to details here.

Just unscrew 4 screws to loose the KB, there are plenty guides / video on Google so I won’t go in to details here.

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Step 2

              Disconnect the battery and disassemble the connector
  • Carefully disconnect the battery from the mainboard micro socket.
  • Cut the yellow plastic cover, try to cut if as half circle and KEEP it for later use.
  • The connector is soldered to the battery, use a small slot head screw driver to break the soldering slowly.

Carefully disconnect the battery from the mainboard micro socket.

Cut the yellow plastic cover, try to cut if as half circle and KEEP it for later use.

The connector is soldered to the battery, use a small slot head screw driver to break the soldering slowly.

Step 3

              Replacing a new battery
  • You may notice the battery is just a CR2025 cell, which costs $1
  • Transfer the blue plastic “ring” from the old battery to the new one, you can do it nicely by using a cutter. This isolation is essential to avoid the connector being short circuit
  • The metal part need to be flatten with a wire clamp or whatever can help you

You may notice the battery is just a CR2025 cell, which costs $1

Transfer the blue plastic “ring” from the old battery to the new one, you can do it nicely by using a cutter. This isolation is essential to avoid the connector being short circuit

The metal part need to be flatten with a wire clamp or whatever can help you

Step 4

              Reconnect the battery
  • It is difficult to solder the cell with home equipment. I used adhesive tape to stick the metal contacts to the cell, RED wire to +ve and BLACK/WHITE wire to -ve
  • You have to avoid the metal contacts from short circuit, adhesive tapes can help you
  • I didn’t have the contracting tubes that fit the cell which is 2cm diameter. Remember the cut yellow shield in step1? Use it to cover the metal parts and reconnect the battery

It is difficult to solder the cell with home equipment. I used adhesive tape to stick the metal contacts to the cell, RED wire to +ve and BLACK/WHITE wire to -ve

You have to avoid the metal contacts from short circuit, adhesive tapes can help you

I didn’t have the contracting tubes that fit the cell which is 2cm diameter. Remember the cut yellow shield in step1? Use it to cover the metal parts and reconnect the battery

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in reverse order.

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Maggan Ninja - Jan 1, 2022

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“there are plenty guides / video on Google so I won’t go in to details here.” Really? That’s a really $@$*!& guide stating what your looking for in the beginning. :(