Find CMOS battery

[ROBERT RICHOLD]

Anyone know how I can locate the CMOS battery on my HP Pavilion zv5200
motherboard. I do not have a diagram.

 

[peter]

Its the ONLY battery on the motherboard...a flashlight should help.
have a good look
peter

 

[BigJim]

silver disk about the size of a quarter

 

[db]

it looks like a
watch battery.

sometimes it is
as large as quarter
and sometimes like
the size of a dime.

it's in place with
a simplistic holder
mounted somewhere on
the motherboard.

take care of removing
it so that the spring like
holder doesn't get bent
out of shape....

- db
Anyone know how I can locate the CMOS battery on my HP Pavilion zv5200
motherboard. I do not have a diagram.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Anyone know how I can locate the CMOS battery on my HP Pavilion zv5200
motherboard. I do not have a diagram.

It's the only thing on the motherboard that is about the size, shape, and
color of of a US quarter.

Are you planning on changing it? Why? What makes you think it's bad? If your
clock is running slow, first take note of whether you are losing time while
the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while powered
off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's while running, it
can *not* be the battery, because the battery isn't used while the computer
is running.

 

[ROBERT RICHOLD]

Here is the problem:

My laptop will not boot into Windows XP.
When I try booting from a Windows XP CD- after I get the
message "press any key to boot from CD" and
press any key, the CD drive runs for about 5 seconds then
stops and all I get is a blank screen. I know the CD is good.
I can use it one another computer.

I have heard that resetting CMOS can fix this problem. I took
apart my laptop but I can not find the battery.

I also think it might be the CD drive. But before I spend money
on the drive I want to see if resetting the CMOS helps.

NO FLOPPY DRIVE!

HP Pavilion zv5200 notebook

 

[Larry(LJL269)]

HUH? Resetting CMOS is set on mobo & has no relation to battery that I
know of.

Just my 2¢ worth. Larry

Here is the problem:

My laptop will not boot into Windows XP.
When I try booting from a Windows XP CD- after I get the
message "press any key to boot from CD" and
press any key, the CD drive runs for about 5 seconds then
stops and all I get is a blank screen. I know the CD is good.
I can use it one another computer.

I have heard that resetting CMOS can fix this problem. I took
apart my laptop but I can not find the battery.

I also think it might be the CD drive. But before I spend money
on the drive I want to see if resetting the CMOS helps.

NO FLOPPY DRIVE!

HP Pavilion zv5200 notebook

It's the only thing on the motherboard that is about the size, shape, and
color of of a US quarter.

Are you planning on changing it? Why? What makes you think it's bad? If
your clock is running slow, first take note of whether you are losing time
while the computer is running or while it's powered off. If it's while
powered off, the problem *is* very likely the battery. But if it's while
running, it can *not* be the battery, because the battery isn't used while
the computer is running.

Any advice is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.

 

[Malke]

Here is the problem:

My laptop will not boot into Windows XP.
When I try booting from a Windows XP CD- after I get the
message "press any key to boot from CD" and
press any key, the CD drive runs for about 5 seconds then
stops and all I get is a blank screen. I know the CD is good.
I can use it one another computer.

I have heard that resetting CMOS can fix this problem. I took
apart my laptop but I can not find the battery.

I also think it might be the CD drive. But before I spend money
on the drive I want to see if resetting the CMOS helps.

NO FLOPPY DRIVE!

HP Pavilion zv5200 notebook

It is very, very unlikely that your motherboard battery has anything to
do with this. Either your optical drive has failed or you have other
issues on the machine such as a bad power supply. Because you have a
laptop, the best course of action would be to contact HP tech support
unless you are extremely familiar with replacing laptop components and
you have extra matching components (such as a new motherboard) on hand.


Malke

 

[db]

this may be helpful for you:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/prodinfoCategory?lc=en&cc=us&dlc=en&product=425665&lang=en

in addition to faq's, it seems you may
have free tech support via chat....

- db
Anyone know how I can locate the CMOS battery on my HP Pavilion zv5200
motherboard. I do not have a diagram.

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have heard that resetting CMOS can fix this problem.

Sorry, but you've heard wrong.