firstly, hello to everyone, pleased to have found a place like this.
i hope this is the right place to put this thread, if not im sorry and could admin move it to the correct place?

i have had my acer aspire 5633 laptop now for about a year and recently its been losing time/date in windows. ive researched the problem and it seems to be the cmos battery on the motherboard?

my question is how do i find and replace the battery? i have removed the back panel where i thought it was but it is nowhere to be seen. please could someone help with this matter? i have taken a photo on the back if that helps in anyway.

thanks in advance

A quick search shows this as a similar model. Do you see the battery as in this model?

thanks for the reply. no i still cant see the battery, i tried to go by that picture but i cant work it out from that model

Sorry for my bad paint skills but open the red hatch and look in the green area:

awesome, thank you very much, i have go and have a look now. thank you again
, do you know if its easy to change? i have some basic experience of the hardware side of things.

It should just "pop out" and in.

Fingernail should do it.

i just removed the panel that you suggested and removed the hardrive that was underneath but i couldnt see any sign of a battery? am i just being thick or missing something? i took a new photo if that helps. thanks for all the help

Well first off I was just guessing given the orientation of the bridges from the other example. Guess I guessed wrong.

I have searched your model online and it is mysteriously missing in ACER data.

Do you not have the manual?

I will continue to search.

the full model name is 5633wlmi part of the 5630 series i think? if that helps.
i have the manual but i cant find anything in it regarding the cmos battery

I found this manual:

ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/noteboo...%20(Vista).pdf

As to the CMOS battery only this:

CMOS battery bad Contact your dealer or an authorized service center.


Anyway on further review it is very rare that this battery would be "bad". They last for several years usually. In most cases they last the lifetime of a computer.

Does your BIOS time change? Do you get any errors on boot? CMOS errors?

Do you have Internet time synchronized in your Windows Time & date options?