[Brig]

I have an HP Pavilion ZE5000 notebook. The internal clock was slow and I was told by HP support that the CMOS battery needed replacement. HP provided me with a part number and I purchased an equivalent at Radio Shack (CR2032, 3.0V). I went to a local laptop repair shop and when the technician opened the top of the laptop he was able to find a battery underneath the keyboard. However, the size of the battery found in my laptop was about 1/3 of the size smaller than the one I purchased at Radio Shack. The tech replaced the battery in my laptop with a new one (from his shop) and reset my clock. However, when I tried it at home, the problem was not solved; my clock is still slow. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[GoLoGo]

Not sure, but maybe your bios/cmos has some bad data or errors and slows down your cmos clock... Many ways that can happen... so if you still havent found a solution... try flashing your bios to your chip... you can find many utilities on the net to do that... but check your motherboard manufacturer's website for the bios files or flashing software.