Why are certain board vendors fitting a rubber piece in the CMOS socket to prevent users from removing CMOS battery? ASUS does this as well but they use an easily removable non-glued on piece. ASROCK uses a just big enough rubber piece with an adhesive layer. Nearly broke socket to get that thing of
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Before anyone says anything, That rubber piece isn’t meant to stay there. No amount of pressing on the tab with an actual flathead screwdriver was exerting enough force to compress the rubber piece and let the battery loose. Had to jam screwdriver on the rubber to break the glue off then force it of the side. Slightly bent the tab in the process, doesn’t look perfect but still works fine, not gonna sweat it, might desolder the socket altogether if it bothers me. Never needed CMOS battery anyways, takes 5 seconds to load a profile from the BIOS.
If it was to prevent users from taking out the battery they wouldn’t use a little rubber piece. It’s there for shipping purposes.