CMOS Battery for Gateway 400SD4

[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.