Compaq Armada E500 CMOS battery???
I pulled the keyboard and found a cr2016 button battery installed in this laptop.
The reason I was looking was because the laptop will only keep the time and date if it is plugged into AC. The regular laptop battery is long dead.
The user purchased a cr2016 3 volt battery and a cr2032 3 volt button battery as they were not sure which one to buy.
Well we tried to solder the leads that were punched to the original battery to the new cr2016 with a little too much heat and popped the battery. :P
So given the cr2032 had the same voltage we soldered that battery in and put it back in the laptop.
Problem: It still refuses to keep time when unplugged from AC.
The BIOS has no setting for date and time as it is kept by this battery from what little info I could find on this laptop by googling.
Any idea what else may be wrong or should we just get another cr2016 and resolder and see what happens?
Thanks for any input.
Compaq Armada E500 CMOS battery???
paisan how old is this thing, I was seaching for it and nothing could be found on it. Please tell me how old it is. James :(
Compaq Armada E500 CMOS battery???
Thank you very much for that information. That makes a big difference. Also the fact that it is listed under HP is a big help. James :D
Re: Compaq Armada E500 CMOS battery???
I found pretty much the same thing as OPOVET2, except I found a slightly different manual, it's the same thing in that it doesn't have the correct battery number anywhere. It's at this url if you want to look for yourself. http://h200005.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/s...79-001_ch5.pdf It's near the end of the manual. I don't know what to tell you. James :(