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CR2016 CMOS battery
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- 1Dying CMOS battery blamed for laptop clock drift and sleep failures▼Laptop has been behaving oddly of late. Massive clock drift and unable to suspend/resume. Turns out both rely on the lit
A laptop owner traced two stubborn problems, large clock drift and broken suspend/resume, to an empty CR2016 CMOS battery on the motherboard. After replacing it, using a battery tab spot welder to attach nickel tabs to the new cell, both issues reportedly disappeared. The post is being shared as a handy troubleshooting tip for similar laptop faults.