haanstar J MV-4 CMOS battery

[cfalk]

Hi!
Was wondering if anyone has any experience with the HaanStar J MV-4 motherboard. I'm trying to fix a laptop for a friend (Gateway M 1626). The bios clock resets after every reboot and it reports an error loading config settings during POST. My thought was to replace the CMOS battery, but I can't find the little bugger. I do see a spot with an unused connector where a battery with wire leads may have once been connected (my friend had another tech working on the laptop before me so maybe they removed the battery for some reason). I can't find any schematics on the net. HannStar's PCB website is in Chinese. If any one here is able to help I would be greatly appreciative.

Thanks!

[glc]

You are looking in the wrong place for info. You need to research at Gateway, not Hannstar. I don't see a detailed manual for that model there, so you may have to e-mail them.

[cfalk]

Thanks for the reply. I've already tried Gateway. They don't have any detailed info regarding the motherboard on their support site and they won't answer any of my questions by e-mail for anything less than sixty dollars. That's why I posted here.