It took me about 30 minutes to figure out how to get a CMOS battery out of an MSI B550 VC WiFi board today.
You may be in a similar situation.
There is a plastic nubbin/doohickey, that seems to lock your CMOS battery clip from allowing the 2032 battery to release. What do you do?
The only thing that worked for me was to pry it out with a curved, metal, iFixit spudger. Put the spudger in between the battery clip and plastic piece and use the curve to pry it out.
To the center right of that battery as the picture is shown are a couple of metal tabs that you push the battery side in. And it should pop out. Good Luck.
So that plastic piece was wedged into the metal clip, preventing it from being compressed and pushed to the side? If so, that’s weird. Never seen that before.
Yes! That is exactly right. I tried pulling back the clip…very hard… I actually started bending the clip.
Then I said, “this shouldn’t be so hard?” And then I looked… “What is this plastic doohickey/nubbin?” And then using tweezers, I could move the plastic piece, but I couldn’t get it out. Had to use the metal prying tool to pull the plastic piece out.
Once the plastice piece was out, the clip funtioned very easy…depressed like a charm and the CMOS battery popped out without any force.
@jon666 and @phence I did search Google for “locked CMOS battery” and “plastic nubbins” but there were no results! This is why I posted.
