My daughters laptop eventually failed to boot, only the fan comes on and no POST. I suspect the CMOS battery has failed, but am not sure and would like to know if this could be the cause before I buy a replacement battery.

POST should report a CMOS failure. If it doesn't it's not the CMOS. No POST usually means screwed motherboard.

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