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Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access

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Somewhere on teh intarwebs George wrote:
> Richard Watherstone <rwatthers@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday, May 1, 2013 1:57:57 AM UTC+1, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> There's a stupidly big PDF of the service manual here:
>>>
>>> http://download.lenovo.com/consumer/mobiles_pub/ideapad_y480
>>> _y580_hmm_1st_edition_mar_2012_english.pdf
>
>> Thanks Kev,i looked through this and another lenovo manual but
>> nothing is mentioned anywhere with regards to accessing the
>> battery.I'm a bit stuck as i need to change the battery in order to
>> get the machine functioning correctly again.
>
> The CMOS battery is normally mounted to the main system board. It
> should be accessible via the Hard Disk/Memory/etc. compartment
> cover (1030, pg. 41) or by removing the keyboard  (1080, pg. 48)
> and keyboard bezel (1090, pg. 51) to expose the top of the system
> board.  All references are to procedures and pages in the above
> HMM.

Good man George. It's good to see someone who isn't scared of a 'stupidly 
big' PDF file. Those HMMs take >10 seconds to d/l and open in another 5 
seconds in Foxit reader. They seem to cause 'trouble' for computer nerds for 
some reason. <shrug>
-- 
/Shaun.

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a 
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1) 

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lenovo y580 cmos battery access rwatthers@gmail.com - 2013-04-30 10:37 -0700
  Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-01 00:57 +0000
    Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Richard Watherstone <rwatthers@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 12:32 -0700
      Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2013-05-01 17:41 -0600
        Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 12:58 +1200
          Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-05-02 01:28 +0000
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 01:08 -0600
              Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access wrat@panix.com (the wharf rat) - 2013-05-04 03:18 +0000
          Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access George <george.ruch74@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 01:12 -0600
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 15:15 +1200
          Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-02 07:55 +0000
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 04:06 -0700
              Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-02 12:09 +0000
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Bob_Villa <pheeh.zero@gmail.com> - 2013-05-02 05:42 -0700
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-06 06:27 +0000
            Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-05 15:13 +1200
              Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-06 06:37 +0000
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 12:50 +1200
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2013-05-07 06:32 +0000
                Re: lenovo y580 cmos battery access "~misfit~" <shaun.at.pukekohe@gmail.com> - 2013-05-07 18:52 +1200

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