CMOS Battery for Gateway 400SD4

[Lordnv]

Greetings, I stumbled across this site trying to figure out where my battery is as well for my Gateway 400sd4. Wow, I'm amazed how much time evryone contributed to this post. I cant wait to see what else is posted here at Virtualdr. Thanks, you all rock!

[KatMac]

Awesome pics you guys have added!

Lordnv, welcome and stick around! This place will teach you things you never thought yourself capable of, I can promise you that, from first hand experience!

reywash, I'm so sorry. I was not able to be here for a long time so didn't see your post, and my email account associated with VDr was down for almost a year, so was never alerted that way. I don't see a way to email you. If you see this and still need info, please, by all means let me know.

[noreason2cry]

A very ugly fix my friend. but it works. It make you wonder why there's not a cmos compartment there to begin with....
thanks

[foxxresell]

A very ugly fix my friend. but it works. It make you wonder why there's not a cmos compartment there to begin with....
thanks

I know this is old but just had to do this with one of these laptops I picked up and reselling.

To answer your question, Gateway had some very bad engineering choices. It is probably part of the reason they no longer exist. I use to do some phone support for them and it was aggravating. It is like someone who never worked on computers designed it. How do you make this kind of mistake. A small battery door would have been super easy to add. The engineer and designer probably didn't know that battery would need replaced at some point.