toshiba equium l10-200 cmos battery replacement...

[didds]

sort of aligned with this call in many ways...

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Ive a old win xp laptop - toshiba equium l10-200. Its perfectly good - 512 Mb ram but runs sweetly - it even has MS office 2010 on it.

Its on problem is I surmise its cmos battery is dead, as it won;t keep it's time between power offs if the mains power is disconnected (the main battery is shot as well). But... the cmos battery is nowhere under any of the areas that one can exoppose on the base.

I suspect therefore its one of these horrible laptops where toshiba have deliberately hidden the cmos battery to effectively enforce a natural life as nobody is going to risk breaking the thing, or paying somebody to fix it cos of the time and effort involved.


Anybody know any different?

The overall real issue for me is that Ive no use for it, but nobody is going tow ant a laptop that form their perspective is "broken". Such a tragic wate to chuck it in the bin. (as per that other post I did contact some charities that may want them, but they either never replied or wanted me to pay postage to send it to them. Im happy to give them away for free to a charity, but Im not going to spend my money to do so - Id rather put the cash directly into another charity's coffers)


Didds

[mc2fool]

Have you tried searching? There seem to be some videos on the matter (I haven't looked at any of them). https://www.google.com/search?q=toshiba ... eplacement

You might also tried searching for the service manual for the model.

[didds]

yeah, I did. all I fond for that model was one really bad youtube video that was dark (ie no easy to see it wasn;t well lit), badly narrated, that appeared to require the skills of a heart transplant specialist.

cheers anyway!

looks like another perfectly otherwise PC bound for the bin.

our society sucks.

didds

[SeagoonN]

Does this help?

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/317930-28-toshiba-satellite-a100-cmos-battery

It says that the CMOS battery is underneath the keyboard - if you can find a way to lift just the keyboard then that may be the answer.

Good luck!

Neddy

[didds]

cheers neddy... im not confident that doling that wouldn't just bugger it up completely. and this is a different model to a satellite as well, so it may not even be there

didds

[Itsallaguess]

looks like another perfectly otherwise PC bound for the bin.

our society sucks.

Woah there didds! We seem to be in a bit of a hurry to condemn us all today....

There's lots of utilities available to correctly sync the clock of an XP box, one of which is called 'Dimension 4' -

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Desktop-En ... on-4.shtml

If you download that, and install it, you should be able to see your PC clock get synchronised (you may have to set it to use a UK time-server, but hopefully this will be apparent to you on first-use), and should run at start-up once you've installed it.

I've not used the above program myself, but it comes well-recommended on various well-known utility-sites, and I'd be interested to hear how you get on with it.

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[pochisoldi]

In my experience there are three ways of removing a laptop keyboard.

1) Catches between the function keys
Look at the gaps between the function keys. If the plastic spacer is lower than the case, then see if the bits of plastic will slide back (towards the keyboard) to release the keyboard at the top. Then lift the top edge of the keyboard, release the ribbon cable and place the keyboard to one side.

2) Screws from the back
Look for screws marked "kbd", remove them then flip over and lift the keyboard slightly, release the ribbon cable and place the keyboard to one side.

3) Screws hidden behind a clip in panel
Remove the panel (youtube, google, t'interweb is your friend) (usually at the top of the keyboard
Remove screws (usually at the top edge of the keyboard, then as per (1).

If the CMOS battery is a heat shrinked coin cell with a wire lead, and you are handy with a soldering iron, buy a PCB mounting coin cell (preferably vertical orientation), recycle the lead and either wrap the new battery in large diameter heatshrink or insulating tape. (£1.50 for a battery alone vs £6 for one with a pair of wires on.)

PochiSoldi

[Breelander]

Ive a old win xp laptop - toshiba equium l10-200...
...I suspect therefore its one of these horrible laptops where toshiba have deliberately hidden the cmos battery...

Here you are - full written disassembly instructions with photos...

This is a guide on how to disassemble the Toshiba Satellite Pro L10 laptop...
...The CMOS battery is located at the bottom right of the motherboard near the optical drive.

https://www.armedpineapple.co.uk/2010/0 ... tructions/

From their photo, it's connected to the motherboard by a short red/black twisted pair of wires with a plug at the m/board.

[didds]

@itsallaguess... actually I had considered a ntp syncing solution too. I was just a tad ... frustrated... earlier.


But as it is I can;t get IE to load any search engine (IE&, downgraded from IE8 which was the same). It will load any other site (!!) - just not google.com etc. It loads yahoo.com but any subsequent search then fails Firefox and chrome all work fin.

Its not the end of the world of course given other browsers work, biut Ive seen this before (but don;t recall how I fixed it then!)

And SP3 won't install - keeps saying something is using ndist.exe or somesuch - there is nothing obvious running except the install and presumably standard background stuff. *sigh*

didds