cmos socket broke

[yarne]

The socket of my cmos battery is broken.

I found some forums that said that you should glue it with hot glue, and others that say that you can just tape it.

Wat should i do?

laptop : HP pavilion 15-n255sb

 

[Gunn]

You can buy a new a holder that costs like 2 dollars from a electronica shop or something like that im sure that you can get it chepper and solder the new one to the board but be carreful with the polarity

[yarne]

7 hours ago, Gunn said:

You can buy a new a holder that costs like 2 dollars from a electronica shop or something like that im sure that you can get it chepper and solder the new one to the board but be carreful with the polarity

but should it be possible to tape it to te socket my solder skills are not so good 

[0x1e]

34 minutes ago, yarne said:

but should it be possible to tape it to te socket my solder skills are not so good 

Yeah, you can use some electrical tape, or even hot glue (I would use glue as a last resort).