{"id":3535,"date":"2021-11-04T11:55:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=3535"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:55:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T11:55:03","slug":"broken-cmos-battery-clip","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/broken-cmos-battery-clip\/88702.html","title":{"rendered":"Broken CMOS Battery Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I have a motherboard that requires a CR2032 battery both for the internal clock and to preserve CMOS settings when unplugged. The slot resembles this model:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170118223534\/http:\/\/i01.i.aliimg.com\/img\/pb\/477\/699\/257\/1279173921558_hz-cnmyalibaba-web3_15448.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/i01.i.aliimg.com\/img\/pb\/477\/&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have accidentally broken the clip that holds the battery down while trying to change it. I&#8217;m wondering what are my options. I&#8217;m thinking I can safely keep the battery in place with a small quantity of hot glue (it&#8217;s a well vented ATX case) but does that clip not serve as the cathode? What is the simplest way for me to fix this? I should add that I&#8217;m not very at ease with soldering, but I&#8217;m ready to give it a try if necessary and, I know I&#8217;m betraying my carelessness here, but I think I&#8217;ve lost the broken clip part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":4},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3535","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/3535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=3535"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=3535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}