Inspiron 5000 CMOS?

My Inspiron 5000 seems to forget the date every time it's turned off. No other problems, so I suspect the CMOS battery is failing.

I've looked at the Dell "take apart" manuals and they have no mention of a CMOS battery, what kind it is or where it is.

From Googling around I gather it's under the keyboard.

Can anyone confirm this?

Does anyone know exactly what kind of battery it is?

 

The Dell Inspiron 5000/5000e CMOS battery is smaller than a dime and soldered via two legs to the motherboard. It is located under the video board about the middle of the unit. To get to it you must remove the keyboard, CPU heat sink, and video board. You may have to remove the floppy drive in order to remove the video board. To remove, note polarity, and use a very fine tip soldering iron very carefully.
Several battery specialty shops can fabricate a replacement using possibly a CR2032 or smaller and spot welding two wires to it. Then heat-shrink wrapping it. Placement with a drop of RTV to hold in place.
No other way than to replace the mother board with a new one that is no longer available. One might string long wires from the solder points to either the memory area or the mini PCI card area and then stuf the battery there.
Another poor design on Dells part.

 

Thanks.
Seems like it would take an hour, and a good chance I'd break something in the process. I've got it reset the time by Internet every time it boots up, so I think I'll just live with it.