Battery removal and CMOS battery

I just got an ASUS G73JH.. and have been told to charge the battery to 40% and store it out of the computer. I rarely use it on battery and power down when not in use via AC. By not leaving it plugged in, will this eventually drain my CMOS battery (as has happened on my Dell D610 (circa 2005) ?
Thanks a lot in advance, Josea

 

Yes, of course it will eventually drain the CMOS battery.

However, this will take years.
If you want to leave it that long on a shelf, I suggest to sell it!

 

I suggest leaving the battery in. It's not going to wear out the battery.

 

How will the main battery drain the CMOS/Motherboard battery?

 

I think he means without the main battery installed, the CMOS battery wont be re-charged.

I know with my toshiba notebooks, the CMOS battery wouldn't charge while the notebook was off (plugged into the mains but switched off).

 

Exactly right that is what I mean MoralHazard (that is how it was with my Dell D610). Thanks a lot to all who have replied, I have been out of the loop for about 2 years and am trying to not ruin my new notebook. You guys are the best!
I guess I will leave it in and discharge it occassionally.

 

An empty CMOS battery is no great drama anyway, is it?

Just put a new one in and you're good to go.

 

Well, it may not be easily accessible. Who would like to rip his laptop entirely apart for that?


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Very annoying to lose correct time on every reboot.
Would certainly tear it apart to replace this battery (99% of cases the warranty is by then expired anyway)!
Quite sure many are with me on this point, it isn't exactly open heart surgery.

 

Those cmos batteries aren't rechargeable. Whether you keep the battery in your laptop or not, or you keep it plugged in to ac or not isn't going to make a difference.

 

My Toshiba tecra A9 did charge its CMOS battery (so did my M9).
This info was written in Toshibas documentation.

I believe all notebooks should recharge their CMOS batteries. Otherwise how could 1 small battery keep its charge for 3+ years (I have a 10 year old notebook that never had a problem with its CMOS battery).

 

If you take out the battery, look at it, and read it, you will see that it is a non-rechargeable, 3v lithium button cell battery. Think about how often you need to replace the battery in a watch. Just because the battery is small doesn't mean it won't last a very long time under such minute loads.

 

When I was a kid I used those batteries for small moters and other things, I recharged them myself many times. Ripped them out of old desktops.

Anyway, if you don't believe me, maybe you will believe the toshiba tecra a7 service manual:

Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 / A105 - Tecra A7 Service Manual free download,schematics,datasheets,eeprom bins,pcb,repair info for test equipment and electronics

It's a multi part download, if you have trouble downloading it, I will upload it for you on rapidshare or something (it's a 10Mb file). Just let me know.

 

Neat. I never knew NiMH CMOS batteries existed. They don't appear to be very common.

 

Agree. Every CMOS battery I have seen in ages has been a disposable lithium coin cell type, but moral hazard illustrates the need to read the service guide for your particular machine. good old Tosh ! My experience of rechargeable backup batteries in domestic time switches has been that they last less time than the lithium disposable ones.

It is true that keeping the battery in the laptop will avoid the CMOS battery having to supply the CMOS. But generally it is big enough to last c 5 years doing that. The shelf life of a Lithium back up battery is 8 - 10 years but less at high temperature . .ah that would be in a a laptop then . ..

Best assume you will replace your cmos battery in year 5. Even if soldered in it is not too hard a job - your local TV repair shop can do it quicker and cheaper than a laptop specialist if you have opened it up for them.

The main battery will also die in 5 - 6 years even stored at 40% outside the laptop. Stored at 100% inside the laptop 3 years is more like it before significant capacity loss. Main batteries also have a cycle life so if you use it as a 'laptop' a few days a week it will last less time.

Better approach is to assume a 3 - 4 year old laptop is about to start needing expensive replacement HDD's, Batteries, adapters, Fans, CMOS batteries etc and that if you bought all of those one day you could probably spend half the cost of a new, guaranteed 2013 model netbook with the same (now totally obsolete) spec. So be glad it lasted that long and save up for the new one

 

I was under the impression that CMOS batteries didn't discharge unless no other power source was plugged in - so for desktops, if the power is disconnected; for laptops, if both AC plug and main battery are out. I've got had computers that survived well over 8 years without ever changing the CMOS battery, as well as CMOS batteries that came to me dead from the manufacturer. Oddly enough, 2 of the 8 or 9 desktop motherboards I've purchased over the years arrived with the CMOS battery flipped over.