Presario 724EA : BIOS battery change ?

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not familiar with that model but some of the batteries in laptops are easily
accessed some are not.

"Christophe Franco" <cfranco@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:1gs38d4.uafp2v1e0zepmN%cfranco@pobox.com...
> Hi everybody,
>
> I've just bought an used Compaq Presario 724EA. It is working quite
> well, but it has a small problem the seller had warned me about : its
> BIOS battery, that keeps among other things the time/date settings when
> no other power source remains, is empty. He said he always kept the
> laptop battery outside the laptop to preserve it, thus the BIOS battery
> seems to have been much more used than in any other equivalent laptop.
>
> Anyone knows how to change it ? Is there a lot of things to disassembly
> ? I'm very confortable with dissassembling computers, even laptops, it's
> part of my job, but I need to know what to disassembly exactely to do
> this. I didn't find any information about this on HP/Compaq website, or
> anywhere else by searching on google.
>
> --
> Christophe Franco