IBM ThinkPad T60 CMOS Battery Backup Replacement

You can grab the IBM Hardware Maintenance Manual for the ThinkPad T60 from the Internet Archive here: https://archive.org/details/ibm-thinkpad-t60-maintenance-manual

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To get to the CMOS battery you need to remove the keyboard and to remove the keyboard you need to remove the palm rest..

There are 4 screws underneath the laptop that need to be removed so you can take off the palm rest:

Once you have undone the screws, flip the laptop over and carefully remove the palm rest:

To remove the keyboard there is one more screw underneath to unscrew:

Then the keyboard can be removed as follows:

Now you can (finally) access the CMOS battery so you can replace it:

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Where Can You Get A Replacement Battery From?

They are still available on places like Amazon and eBay as all they are, are a CR2032 3V battery on a 2 prong cable with a JST connector on the end.

Or, you can do what I do and re-use the existing JST connector/lead and make your own:

 

 

 

I've made some stickers that I can easily write the Month/Year on that I can stick on the inside of the laptop so anybody opening up the laptop in the future will know the date the CMOS RTC Battery was changed.

If you want to have a go at making your own CMOS battery then here is a link to a YouTube video I made some time ago: https://youtu.be/d7gmbnMD7PU?t=71