[PLUG] CMOS Battery on Toshiba Satellite L45

[Dick Steffens]

On 7/22/19 10:09 AM, Dick Steffens wrote:
> It turns out that the soldered in CMOS battery on the Toshiba 
> Satellite L45 laptop is rechargeable. The laptop needs to be turned on 
> for 24 hours to charge the battery. I discovered this while searching 
> for info on where to find the battery so I could consider changing it. 
> I left the laptop running overnight. I powered down and removed the Li 
> battery, took off the little covers on the bottom, didn't see the 
> battery, downloaded the User's Guide from the Toshiba site and 
> searched for CMOS. I found that they call this one the RTC battery 
> (Real Time Clock. Anyway, here's the instructions for charging this 
> battery:
>
> To recharge the RTC battery, plug the computer into a live electrical
> outlet and leave the computer powered on for 24 hours.
>
> So, all appears to be well with this little guy, except for how slow 
> it boots. It's only got 1 gig of RAM. It can take 1 gigs, and would 
> only cost me about $32, but I probably won't need it for its end use, 
> which is playing recorded music.
>

Should have said it can take 2 gigs.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens