Keeping your computer happy...

This is a little story about changing the battery in your computer, and yes, dear friends, it does have one. Trust me.  It is on the motherboard, usually near the main processor, or between that and the chips for the RAM. It's about the size of a U.S. nickel and it likely has the number CR2032 on it, or one very similar.

For instructions and a short video on how to do all that replacing of it, which really isn't all that difficult, you can just Google the phrase "Replace the CMOS Battery", and look at the first few items of the results for one with a video. The batteries are usually available at both computer repair shops and at stores with a camera department, because this is a lithium battery also used in camera equipment. Quite readily available, in other words.

And the screenshot above shows what you get if you are running two monitors on a Windows 8 PC and save a screenshot using Windows Key + Print Screen.
It saves both monitors as if they were one. Neat, huh?

I almost forgot to mention that the voltage shown above for 'VBAT' (CMOS Battery) is the voltage of a newly-replaced battery. I changed it today. When you do that, the first time you start the machine, it will show you a screen full of information about your BIOS, and ask you to press F1 to continue, and after you press F1, it will continue into a normal start.  You can then start breathing again because you did it all correctly and your computer is happy.