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    Disassemble and locate Cmos battery (a135-s2276)

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by grizzly, May 17, 2007.

  1. grizzly

    grizzly Notebook Guru

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    Hi
    I need help figuring out where the cmos battery of this laptop is, and how to disassemble the laptop. So far after a million scratches , all that I have managed to do is removed all the screws from the bottom part of the laptop.
    Should I just yank of the bottom part using force? With the help of a pen torch I can see there are lots of connectors and stuff connecting the two parts of the laptop, so it doesn't seem like a very good idea..

    Any help?

    and any ideas how would it look like. blue disc?
    I just want to reach the cmos battery so I can shot it or unsolder it, because of the 'spontaneous bios password' problem.

    Thanks
     
    grizzly, May 17, 2007
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    slappin Notebook Enthusiast

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    Disassembly guide

    Note remember to remove the VGA screws in the side of laptop before trying to remove mobo.

    Goodluck on the CMOS battery.
     
    slappin, May 18, 2007
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    I had seen that guide, but it is of a different model. Will most things be similar?
     
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    I went ahead and read the whole guide, and have maanged to remove the keyboard :). Now there are just too many screws and connecting wires(with scratches) and tapes below the keyboard. If only I can know where the CMOS battery is and how will it look like, I will be soo thankful.
     
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    Progress - below the keyboard there were two screws, removing which I could lift the the upper part a lil more and now I am pretty sure where and which the battery is :D. (it's a lil blue disc in the front-middle-center part of the laptop.
    I haven't seperated the 2 parts of the laptop, coz the upper (keyboard area) is still connected to the mobo with varios cables and connectors. So I can just reach the CMOS battery with the screw-driver.

    Q1. Will the laptop still fuction if I was to remove the bios battery permanently?
    Q2. IS there an alternative to unsoldering the battery. I can touch both the negative and +ve parts with a screw-driver.

    Thanks
     
    grizzly, May 18, 2007
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