Hey, You are basically running it already without a battery. Taking the battery out should not affect the operation of your laptop any further. If you take it out you can also look at it a bit more to determine the voltage of it. / Andreas John <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> skrev:

Hi Noel The advise I have been given is no cmos battery no boot but I am unsure of the facts in that regard.The cmos battery has been dying for some time as the rtc needed to be reset when ever I allowed the main battery to go flat There is a (10) battery available at Ebay but I was hoping for something local. Cheers John

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 22:54 +1200, noel villamor wrote:

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John,

I bought mine from Ebay. The item was shipped from Hongkong and it took two weeks to arrive.

The plastic connector broke in mine and so I have to replace the whole thing. In your case, you should be able to just replace the battery.

I may be wrong for your specific laptop but I thought you could still boot a laptop even with no cmos battery. If you could not then the problem may be something else.

Noel

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