HP Spectre Wrong Time

[Ryujin2003]

My wife has an HP Spectre 13-4103. It's a nice laptop, haven't had an issue with it until now. The time seems to become wrong sometimes. I'm used to this being related to CMOS issues. Apparently HP uses a version of the same thing  but call it RTC, or Real Time Clock battery. However, I took the bottom plate off, and I definitely do not see anything at all that resembles a battery.

Searching Google hasn't turned up  much. My wife is very well known for letting the battery charge die often. If there is no Cmos battery, would it draw just from the battery?

 

Is anyone familiar with this?

[Droidbot]

on most HP machines (my experience with HP machines anyway) the CMOS or RTC battery is on the other side of the motherboard, you need to take the screws off so the keyboard lifts out and put the machine on its side. 

 

look it up online, someone will have had the same issue.

[Ryujin2003]

11 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

on most HP machines (my experience with HP machines anyway) the CMOS or RTC battery is on the other side of the motherboard, you need to take the screws off so the keyboard lifts out and put the machine on its side. 

 

look it up online, someone will have had the same issue.

I took the battery out, and the other side of the board is basically the bottom of the keyboard. I'll take it out and see what I get. I did get a CMOS CheckSum error last time I booted.

 

I'll take the whole thing out. Not sure why it can't be on the easy access side.

[Droidbot]

5 minutes ago, Ryujin2003 said:

I took the battery out, and the other side of the board is basically the bottom of the keyboard. I'll take it out and see what I get. I did get a CMOS CheckSum error last time I booted.

 

I'll take the whole thing out. Not sure why it can't be on the easy access side.

my EliteBook has the same issue, the battery is non-standard on the Elitebook units and is covered with yellow tape. I get CMOS Checksum errors in BIOS, but it works in UEFI perfectly fine besides the BIOS taking ages to load

[Ryujin2003]

18 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

my EliteBook has the same issue, the battery is non-standard on the Elitebook units and is covered with yellow tape. I get CMOS Checksum errors in BIOS, but it works in UEFI perfectly fine besides the BIOS taking ages to load

I've got a sneaking suspicion there is no space underneath for any type of battery...

[Ryujin2003]

So, no battery anywhere... is it possible it trickles from the main battery? If so, would her constantly running the battery down kill the clock?

 

(And yes, I use straps at home)

[Droidbot]

If you can't find a CMOS battery, contact HP. 

Their support is quite good in my experience.

[Ryujin2003]

1 minute ago, Droidbot said:

If you can't find a CMOS battery, contact HP. 

Their support is quite good in my experience.

Ok, I will,  thanks. I was a bit nervous because of course the warranty just expired Haha.  always happens that way.

 

Thanks for your time. I'm update after I figure out things with HP.