CMOS battery/BIOS reset on 6615WD

Hi all,

Made a BIOS change the other day (to try to fix another problem) to my 6615WD and now the laptop freezes after a few seconds of the boot process (before i can get to the bios menu by hitting f2). i guess (*prays*) that resetting the bios will get it going again, and that removing the CMOS battery or setting some jumper is the best way of doing this. Can anyone please tell me where such things can be found on the 6615WD (or 6015WD)?

I saw on a previous thread that the battery for the 6024W is in the memory compartment - is it the same for the 6615WD? I did open up the memory compartment last night, but didn't notice anything that looked like the battery. I suppose i might have overlooked it.

Alternatively, is there anything else you can suggest that will reset the bios or fix the problem? The setting i changed in the bios was to enable something to do with the LAN on the Intel menu. Didn't seem like a particularly critical setting, but that'll teach me to mess with things i don't fully understand...

Any help will be gratefully appreciated.

Cheers

 

Unfortunately the CMOS battery is soldered to the motherboard on the 6615WD, so only way to reset the BIOS is to change the motherboard.

 

yay - fixed it.

for anyone interested: i removed the keyboard (couple of screws at back) and the metal plate underneath the keyboard (just pulls away) to expose the motherboard. the round lithium cell is right in the middle and fairly easily accessible. it's sandwiched between two plates each of which has an extending leg that's soldered to the motherboard. sadly, as mentioned above, the cell is also soldered to the plates, and so can't be removed (somebody explain to me why a motherboard manufacture would do this?!). in the end i filed thru one of the legs to break the connection, left it a minute and then superglued it back together. the bios gave the "CMOS error" message the first time i booted it, but thereafter booted normally. not pretty, but working perfectly now.

now to sort out the original problem of the non-detected network adapter...

 

You may have just 'VOID' your warranty :-S

 

We've touched on this issue previously and I hope that the warranty is voided only for those components directly affected by the surgery.

John