Monday, January 28, 2013

Changing CMOS battery of eee PC 1005HA

The battery of my girlfriends netbook needed to be replaced (To avoid setting date and time every time you start the computer). I first wanted to buy one of those special ones including cable, but then I thought (mostly for fun) why don't I make one myself? I decided to buy a normal battery, and reuse the cable and connector of the old one. I used:

- Battery
- Shrink tube

That's it, believe it or not. The tricky part was to remove the metal clips attached to the old battery without destroying them. The second tricky thing was to place the clips is such a way that they would be pressed down by the shrink tube, both for the sake of electrical connection and so that they don't move around. When I think of it, tape might have helped... Result: