Help Me Identify Pliers

Is the cell in its holder or is it just lying somewhere? Someone suggested a magnet, but if it's just lying a bit of sticky tape might do.

Dental pliers ?

I hot swap mine. Its a tower case,. I just flick out the old one after attaching a blob of blu-tack and length of cotton to pull it away from the M/B.

I replaced batteries in several of these recently. My hands are large and it wasn't easy. I ended up just remiving the motherboard; easy peasy.

I have the servicing manual, so all the steps were there too.

Can't you find a 'small person' to assist?

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As I just said above, easiest is to remove the motherboard tray!

Have you tried removing a card, drive, board, cable or whatever is in the way?

Tim

No, there's room for me to get both feet in that one!

Picture 7 here:

On 14/05/2026 22:16, Jeff Gaines wrote: to pull it away from the M/B.

So unplug the power cable!

"System battery removal

Before you begin: Review and follow Precautions . Follow Preparation procedures to power down, extend or remove the server from the rack. Remove the AC power cord, first from the source, and then from the server. Remove the access panel, and expansion boards, if they block access. Review System battery consideration.

Use a small flat-bladed, non-conductive tool to carefully pry the system battery up out of its socket.

CAUTION: Use great care to avoid letting the battery pop out of the socket, or allowing the tool to slip and damage the battery socket or the system board. Grasp the system battery and lift it out.

System battery replacement

With the positive (+) side of the battery facing up, toe the battery into its socket and gently press down until it is fully seated.

IMPORTANT: Replacing the system board battery resets the system ROM to its default configuration. After replacing the battery, use BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) in the UEFI System Utilities to reconfigure the system."

It DOES look like you may need to partially strip the board to access the battery, but it doesn't seem to be as bad as you make out.

I find haemostats very useful for all sorts of grabbing and holding.

Do those open enough for a coin cell ?

I think your lack of familiarity with this Microserver is leading you astray.

The battery is vertical so no amount of Google/AI instructions for a horizontal battery on a normal size board in a desktop or tower case helps.

I described what I needed to get it out in my first post, although I forgot to mention it is mounted vertically, and fortunately for me several people have given me pointers to a tool that will help, thank you to those people :-)

Jeff knows this, but for the edification of others:

You have to remove the power cable first. Then you need to get a finger and thumb in there to grab the top of the battery. Simultaneuously, you somehow have to get a finger on the other hand to press the latch on the top of the battery holder.

There is little space for all this.

Much easier to detach three cables that side, and two on the other side (removing the memory makes the latter easier). Then press the latch on the back and slide the motherboard tray out. When refitting, slide it half in, then attach the more tricky cable at front right before moving it the rest of the way in.

Many thanks Bob, spot on :-)

My hands are designed for ATX boards.

I an going to strip one of my two down because the case doesn't fit very well and inspection reveals a bent chassis, looks as if it has been dropped on a corner.

Still works, built like tanks!

That was in fact HPs manual for the model you SAID you had complete with video

So turn te case on its side?

so no amount of Google/AI instructions for a

It wasnt. It was for a little bloxk side nanoserver

Search for "self gripping tweezers". I have some and they are very good for gripping and holding. Can come with various nose designs, straight and right angle.

Cheers

Dave R

Many thanks :-)

I have learnt about so many different tools in this thread!