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laptop dead....CMOS Battery?

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govtcheez75

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I have an old (3 years?) Compaq Armada Laptop that has suddenly died on me. I don't know what happened, as this thing has never had any problems. My GF was using it up to a few nights ago, when she turned it off, and went to sleep. She tried to power it up in the morning, and nothing! I'm thinking that maybe the battery died, and it the charger wasn't plugged in, but the charger was plugged! I couldn't figure out what's wrong with it, so I decided to open it up. Everything looked fine. The only thing I could think of was possibly the CMOS/Coin Cell battery might be dead? It is about 3 years old, with LOTS of use, so I guess it could be possible. Anyone know the life expectancy of these little batteries? The LED light that comes on when the laptop is plugged in doesn't come up, and nothing powers up at all. Will that little battery have that effect?

Thanks for you help.
 
The battery only stores the cmos settings. You can run a computer just fine without that battery, it will just complain at the bios that all the bios settings have been reset and you should go set them.
 
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