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CMOS battery How do I get to the CMOS battery in a Sony Vaio PCG-885L?

mark_gilmore Dec 16, 2008

hmmmm - how does the keyboard come off?

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The cmos battery is under the palm rest of the viao....requires you to take off the keyboard and undo 2 screws holding the palmrest on....slide the palmrest off....battery is plugged into the touchpad circuit board

Posted on Dec 15, 2008

Mark Robinson Dec 16, 2008

one of the screws near the middle of the uderside of the unit has a K next to it....unscrew this screw and keyboard should be free..apart from the motherboard connector...which you unplug

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