Hi all,

I've got one of these laptops in need of a new cmos battery, and I noticed the way the cmos battery works in this laptop is by having the battery use a 2-pin connector to connect to the motherboard instead of a traditional coin cell slot... however, looking at the specs of a replacement cmos battery (which are $7-$10), they list the battery at 3V and it looks to me like its just a CR2032 with permanently attached leads that tie into that 2pin connector.

Is there any reason I shouldn't just buy a cr2032 coin cell holder with leads (see attached photo), solder on the old 2-pin connector from the current dead cmos to those leads, and just use that from now on to more easily pop in a cr2032? Seems very wasteful to me (and uneccesarily more expensive) to manufacture single-use cr2032's with custom connectors... maybe I'm missing something here, but I'd appreciate it if anybody has any input on this. Thanks,

- Rubdub