On the Lenovo r32 laptop where in the heck can one find the
BIOS battery. Usually sensible designed laptops have an easy
access slide panel or similar way to easly remove the bios
battery. I dont see none on mine and I know the day will come
when that old lithium cell will drop below 2.5 or so and I
will be up the creek without a paddle.
Joe


************************************************** ************************
* Ham since 1937 HiSchool Sophomore ex W9ZUU, KP4EX, W4FAG, KH6ARG KH6JF *
* WW2 Vet since Sep 1940 to just After VJ day. US Signal Corps AACS *
************************************************** ************************

Joseph Fenn wrote:
> On the Lenovo r32 laptop where in the heck can one find the
> BIOS battery. Usually sensible designed laptops have an easy
> access slide panel or similar way to easly remove the bios
> battery. I dont see none on mine and I know the day will come
> when that old lithium cell will drop below 2.5 or so and I
> will be up the creek without a paddle.

Under the keyboard Joe.

3s.
--
James

Visit the Thinkpad Forums
http://forum.thinkpads.com

"JHEM" <James@ESAD.SPAMMERS.thinkpads.com> wrote in message
news:SeIhh.568$Eo.5@trnddc08...
> Joseph Fenn wrote:
>> On the Lenovo r32 laptop where in the heck can one find the
>> BIOS battery. Usually sensible designed laptops have an easy
>> access slide panel or similar way to easly remove the bios
>> battery. I dont see none on mine and I know the day will come
>> when that old lithium cell will drop below 2.5 or so and I
>> will be up the creek without a paddle.
>
> Under the keyboard Joe.
>

Exactly. My Dell L400 had a slide panel that came off easily after I used a
paperclip to lift it up, but I still had to remove the 4 screws and lift up
the keyboard to find the CMOS battery (aka BIOS battery). Go search the
Lenovo site and I'd bet there's an online version of the manuals for the
laptop that will show you just how to do it. If you're searching the index
of the manual, in addition to CMOS, I'd also search under "reserve battery"
which is what it was called in my Dell L400 manual.

"Joseph Fenn" <jfenn@lava.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.BSI.4.61.0612181309580.23913@malasada.la va.net...
> On the Lenovo r32 laptop where in the heck can one find the
> BIOS battery. Usually sensible designed laptops have an easy
> access slide panel or similar way to easly remove the bios
> battery. I dont see none on mine and I know the day will come
> when that old lithium cell will drop below 2.5 or so and I
> will be up the creek without a paddle.
> Joe

While I haven't seen every laptop there is, I've never seen one with an
access panel for the "cmos" battery. Most have memory access panels and
some have hard drive panels but that usually about it.

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, BR549 wrote:

> "Joseph Fenn" <jfenn@lava.net> wrote in message
> news:Pine.BSI.4.61.0612181309580.23913@malasada.la va.net...
>> On the Lenovo r32 laptop where in the heck can one find the
>> BIOS battery. Usually sensible designed laptops have an easy
>> access slide panel or similar way to easly remove the bios
>> battery. I dont see none on mine and I know the day will come
>> when that old lithium cell will drop below 2.5 or so and I
>> will be up the creek without a paddle.
>> Joe
>
> While I haven't seen every laptop there is, I've never seen one with an
> access panel for the "cmos" battery. Most have memory access panels and
> some have hard drive panels but that usually about it.
>
On all the old NEC laptops it was ideql. Just slide a smll panel out
and there the cmos aka bios battery was. Just lift it out and put
in a new one. Slide the cover back on and your in business again.

Joe