Finding the CMOS battery in Sony Vaio GRV550


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Picture One: My GRV550 doesn’t have a keyboard, so if yours does, just ignore the bottom portion of the picture. You see at the top left the top-left part of the body of the Vaio GRV550 … with the “speaker grille” flipped up. To do that, find the little screw on the left side, which is under the flap which is over the I-link, which is next to the USB flap cover. Remove the screw and carefully pull up on the speaker grille thingie.

There you will see the left edge of the computer at the top, and then some of the parts, to the right is a green thing, that’s the CMOS battery.

Pictures Two and Three: Close-ups of the CMOS battery. You have to lift up a black thingie to get to it. In order to take it out you just have to get the little jumper cable and take that out, and pry up the battery. It’s two batteries in a shrinkwrapped plastic thing, the green stuff is that.

To get out of a bind, as some of my posts have gone over, take out the CMOS battery and put it in the freezer for about 10 minutes, then reinstall it. That fixes some of the problems of getting the computer to boot up. I’ll link to those posts later.

Picture Four: A different perspective from the left looking right, you can’t see the CMOS battery, it’s more to the right. You can see the jumper cable and where it plugs in, for the CMOS battery though. It’s the last jumper thing at the top right, a two pronged whitish thing connected to a black wire and a red wire …


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