[SOLVED] location / access to CMOS battery - Toshiba Satellite L450

[aribert]

Bought a Toshiba Satellite L450-EZ1522 at a company liquidation auction. Laptop needs both batteries replaced. Where is the CMOS battery located? I have watched several videos of various Toshiba laptops being dismantled but never actually saw the battery in any of the videos - I do not want to completely strip the laptop - just dismantle enough to access the battery. TIA

 

[boju]

From manual;

Charging the RTC battery

Your computer has an internal real-time clock (RTC) battery. The RTC battery powers the System Time Clock and BIOS memory used to store your computer’s configuration settings. When fully charged, it maintains this information for up to a month when the computer is powered off.

The RTC battery may have become completely discharged while your computer was shipped, resulting in a CMOS error message during startup. The error message may vary by computer model.

Depending on your system, the RTC battery may only charge while the computer is turned on.

To recharge the RTC battery, plug the computer into a live electrical outlet and leave the computer powered on for 24 hours.

Looks like it's got a rechargeable cmos/rtc battery. Try charge it up with a working laptop battery and see. Give it a good while to charge.

The rts battery is probably located under the keyboard, huge effort getting to. Hope recharging works.

 

[aribert]

boju:

Thank you!