Repair manual

The pernicious CMOS battery is held victoriously.
This is it. The final, last part of clearing this laptop.
After waiting about five minutes, it can be replaced and everything put back in place. The password is
now cleared.
When the laptop is put back together, it is important to slide this corner of the keyboard in just right.
This procedure will clear the supervisor password, the user password, the boot password, and will
reset the hard drive password from 'locked' to 'set'; but it will not clear the hard drive password. I do
not know if it is possible to clear the hard drive password, perhaps that is what the 24C02 chip on this
laptop is for.
I did say that I had taken this laptop completely apart.
For anyone who is curious, or feels the need to do something with this laptop other than clearing the
passwords; these 2 last pictures show the approximate location of the chip. It is on the bottom of the
motherboard.
And yes, it can be hooked up without the bottom of the casing and powered on as in the main site
procedure.