The CMOS battery for most laptops can be handled in one of two ways. The first is the typical button cell battery, like would be on a desktop motherboard. In laptops they might be mounted directly to the board, or encased in some heat shrink with a little pigtail connector coming off. They are usually very obvious.
If you don't see one of these, it's very plausible your laptop uses the main battery for these functions. It doesn't require much energy to keep the necessary components on the board from losing power so as long as the battery has nominal power, it's s enough. [br]
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If you can confirm the exact model of your laptop, we can take a look at the service manual to get a more concrete answer (I
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If you can confirm the exact model of your laptop, we can take a look at the service manual to get a more concrete answer (I never trust how people categorize PCs because there aren't device pages for all the various laptops)
The CMOS battery for most laptops can be handled in one of two ways. The first is the typical button cell battery, like would be on a desktop motherboard. In laptops they might be mounted directly to the board, or encased in some heat shrink with a little pigtail connector coming off. They are usually very obvious.
If you don't see one of these, it's very plausible your laptop uses the main battery for these functions. It doesn't require much energy to keep the necessary components on the board from losing power so as long as the battery has nominal power, it's s enough. [br]
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If you can confirm the exact model of your laptop, we can take a look at the service manual to get a more concrete answer (I