Talk:MSI motherboard CMOS battery obsolescence
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Please add a photo with VRM heatsink installed to show how hard (or easy) to remove it and access the CR2032. Compare it with "This product contains an irreplaceable battery" claim. Charlie 6 (talk) 12:33, 26 February 2026 (UTC)
- I appended an "Assembled" Photo in the references section when I wrote the article. I'm somewhat new to writing wiki's so I wasn't quite too sure where/ how to append such information. But any included examples of a specific mainboard is also sort of missing the greater point, which is that the entire current product lineup from MSI has this hardware configuration. It's not just the Z890 board, it's ALL of them. LizzyLamia (talk) 18:46, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
If anyone else has a current MSI Mainboard and can assist with filling this wiki page out. Please do.
Each motherboard model seems to have a unique and specific "hiding location" for the CMOS battery. All the manual entries list "This product contains an Irreplaceable Battery" but the exact obfuscation/location of the battery varies from model to model. Most of the high end boards * MAG and MPG * seem to have it located underneath the VRM Heatsink. Others seem to have it buried under heatsinks on other board locations. I don't have the resources, nor patience to hunt down the battery placement board-by-board. There are some models that contain this text in the manual that have overtly displayed CR2032 batteries in the product promotion images, like normal boards ought to. I very much doubt anyone really cares enough to help out, but, on the off chance they do. Thank you very much. LizzyLamia (talk) 19:50, 27 February 2026 (UTC)
- I got a MSI mobo so I checked inside my case to see if its CMOS battery be hidden. Couldn't find it so did a model number search and on their site they had pictures. The CMOS battery is hidden on mine, but behind the GPU (lol). Granted its a 2023 board so not "current". Product images could be a way we can identify which boards have obfuscated CMOS batts. SinexTitan (talk) 21:38, 27 February 2026 (UTC)