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::actually my board's much older I just bought it on 2023. regardless I took a glance at their current selection and noticed a lot of them use cover plates that may or may not hide the CR2032. checking images is a manual process but checking manuals can be automated. under the "Overview of Components" section in the PDF they showcase a "battery" in a CR2032-like enclosure or just a circular battery icon. out of the first 6 boards from the [https://us.msi.com/Motherboards/Products#?tag=MAG-Series MAG series] half of them show the use of a battery. [[User:SinexTitan|SinexTitan]] ([[User talk:SinexTitan|talk]]) 21:57, 27 February 2026 (UTC) | ::actually my board's much older I just bought it on 2023. regardless I took a glance at their current selection and noticed a lot of them use cover plates that may or may not hide the CR2032. checking images is a manual process but checking manuals can be automated. under the "Overview of Components" section in the PDF they showcase a "battery" in a CR2032-like enclosure or just a circular battery icon. out of the first 6 boards from the [https://us.msi.com/Motherboards/Products#?tag=MAG-Series MAG series] half of them show the use of a battery. [[User:SinexTitan|SinexTitan]] ([[User talk:SinexTitan|talk]]) 21:57, 27 February 2026 (UTC) | ||
:::Thank you for looking! It seems to be only the higher end of their product line-up (MEG & MPG) has this new battery location, and only on their recently released boards. Prior to the 2025/2026 release cycle they all had standard mounts in obscure places. I have no issue with board designers hiding the battery out of view, behind the GPU or under a quick release NVME heat-sink, but not being able to even disconnect it for testing purposes without disassembling the whole top-side of the board makes the computer much more difficult to service. The whole reason I even noticed this, was my new MSI Box has had some stability issues, and I went to pull the CMOS batt, just to do a clean hard reset and had that ... "Wait... Where is it?" , moment. Which led to research, nagging my friend who owns a computer repair shop about it, etc etc. [[User:LizzyLamia|LizzyLamia]] ([[User talk:LizzyLamia|talk]]) 16:18, 1 March 2026 (UTC) | :::Thank you for looking! It seems to be only the higher end of their product line-up (MEG & MPG) has this new battery location, and only on their recently released boards. Prior to the 2025/2026 release cycle they all had standard mounts in obscure places. I have no issue with board designers hiding the battery out of view, behind the GPU or under a quick release NVME heat-sink, but not being able to even disconnect it for testing purposes without disassembling the whole top-side of the board makes the computer much more difficult to service. The whole reason I even noticed this, was my new MSI Box has had some stability issues, and I went to pull the CMOS batt, just to do a clean hard reset and had that ... "Wait... Where is it?" , moment. Which led to research, nagging my friend who owns a computer repair shop about it, etc etc. [[User:LizzyLamia|LizzyLamia]] ([[User talk:LizzyLamia|talk]]) 16:18, 1 March 2026 (UTC) | ||
== Notability discussion == | |||
This is obviously well put together article, and a relevant repairability issue, but I have concerns about its notability, since this seems to be original research by the author (see: https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Consumer_Rights_Wiki:Wiki_content_policies#Verifiability). | |||
At a minimum, we should at least have a citation pointing to some discussion of this issue online | |||
If there's no external sources for it, it might be something that's better hosted in userspace (i.e. /User:[Username]/[Pagename]). [[User:Keith|Keith]] ([[User talk:Keith|talk]]) 22:04, 1 March 2026 (UTC) | |||