[Norton]

I need to replace the motherboard battery in my BDP1.  Seems to be in the cream plastic housing quite firmly with slight  lip to keep it in place.  I don’t want to apply too much force.  How have others got it out and replaced?

Thanks

[Spyman]

I recently had to do this. I just applied increasing upward pressure until the battery came out. Then I put the new battery in, making sure the plus side was facing up, and pressed down until I was sure it was seated properly. Hope this helps.

[vonnie123]

Done it a couple of times. Be careful with respect (no static) to grounding inside the component.  Apply light pressure to the battery upward from one edge.  It should pop loose.

[Norton]

Thanks, I did just try gentle upward pressure but I couldn’t get it to move and was afraid of more force pulling the holder off the board. 

In the end , I pushed out  one rear-facing corner of the plastic holder with a small screwdriver, just enough to then pull part of the battery over the retaining lip,and then pushed the battery gently up  from below with the screwdriver.

All refitted fine, however I still got “09” error on initial boot, but disconnected and reconnected power and usb cable and now all seems fine.

[vonnie123]

Glad you got it going.  I've also had the 09 error code, and Chris Rice walked me through a connect-disconnect-reconnect procedure on the serial cables.  Apparently they may get corroded or loose over time.