# Laptop BIOS battery

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/laptop-bios-battery/54042>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [June 10, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/laptop-bios-battery/54042 "2004-06-10T13:42:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/laptop-bios-battery/54042/1 "2004-06-10T13:42:07Z")

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My friend has a old laptop (just about runs windows 98) but every time it starts up it asks her for the time and date. I am assuming this is due to the mainboard battery being dead, if its the same as a PC!?. Can I just buy one of those little round battery’s for it? and what’s the most common way of getting into older laptops? — I don’t want to break it :-/