Battery for HP Pavillion

I have an HP Pavillion that is booting every day with a total loss of the day/time setting. I suspect the battery and want to replace it.

The battery is a Maxell CR2032-6V so I checked Radio Shack online and the local store. Neither has the battery as 6V only 3V.

Any ideas on how to find it. I don't want to remove it to take to the store for fear of losing my CMOS settings while it is out. Is that a reasonable concern?

 

The 2032 is a 3 volt lithium cell.
They do go flat and I have replaced many.
When you replace it, you will have to re-set all your bios settings as you had them before.
Make sure the AC mains cord is unplugged from the machine before you replace the battery
Just a normal part of computer life

Daddad

 

I will look again but I am so sure that the cell itself had 6V stamped on it.

Is there an app that will read the CMOS and save all the settings so that I can print them out in case I have to re-enter them? That is a daunting task without that information since any error on some of the parms can prevent a boot.

 

TenBob, I do not know of any utility that will "capture" a picture of your bios settings.
Perhaps others may have run across such a thing.

If your battery has gone down to the extent that your date and time are always re-set, your bios most probably has reverted to all default settings anyway.

Again, I have never seen a 6 volt 2032 lithium battery.

By their natural chemical makeup, they are but a single 3 volt lithium-manganese dioxide cell.
Commonly used in computer bios chip power.

Daddad

 

Sorry about the mis-reading. I checked again, and, of course, it was 3V Must have been double vision

REplaced the battery and things are worse than before but I am sure not because of the battery I had it replaced withing 10-15 seconds. Now the computer will boot but does not get past the WinXP logo that has the moving blocks.

I tried booting from the CD by changing the bios to read that first but no help - Put it back to Floppy first then CD then HD.

This is my wife's computer and I am currently at a loss. As a last result, I have a spare machine with 1 HD and could move her HD into it to be able to gather the data , but it would be last resort.

I would even be ready to re-install winXP if that were the problem. -- again, not my first choice.
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On my own computer, I did use my digital camera to capture all the BIOS screens but neglected to do it to hers