Dell Inspiron 1525 - Time of day clock stopped
Issue
I just got a dell 1525 Inspiron from a friend. Every time I turn it on it says "time of day clock stopped" and will not change screens anybody have any ideas?
Solution
More info on solving problem:
My daughter's laptop (Dell inspiron 1525) had the same issue displaying "time-of-day clock stopped" and I couldn't get it to do anything else including booting from the CD drive. Since she damaged the case by dropping it so the screen/lid can no longer close and I can't ship it out for service (cost to fix lid not worth it) I decided on opening the case myself and replace the battery. I did it and is currently working again. On first boot up I had to go into setup (F2) and reset the clock. Below is a summary of what I did.
There are some plastic "hook tabs" that hold together the case (I broke a few) after the screws are removed. The battery (CR 2032) is located on the motherboard under the left click mouse button. Here are a few screw locations, probably not all because I am writing this after fix and my memory doesn't always serve.
- 8 screws that hold on funny shape bottom cover.
- 1 screw in center of opened funny shape cover.
- 5 screws that hold in a heat dissipater (block of fins and copper flat tube).
- 2 screws under removable battery. These screws hold on the narrow cover snap lid where power button is located.
- 2 screws under narrow cover that hold the keyboard in place with remaining snaps.
- 2 screws under keyboard.
- 2 screws the hold in the hard drive.
- 10 screws on bottom of case. I was never able to totally separate the top case from the bottom case but was able to spread front section of cases enough to replace battery.
Tools
- Very small phillips screw driver.
- small regular screw driver.
- right angle pick.
- small needle nose pliers.
- patience.
Remember, I had nothing to lose and was accepting the fact that the laptop was a total lost. So you might want to send yours in for professional service.
To know more please click here:
http://en.community.dell.com/forums/t/19261011.aspx
Note
Thanks to
Mark for this tip on the forum.