I have the model GX531GW. If you tear down the laptop to the point where you have removed the keyboard panel, the cmos battery can be seen on the top side of the motherboard. It is under a piece of felt electrical tape on my model. It is located on the lh side of the laptop, just at the base of the motherboard where it meets the battery. It is about 3cm to the right of a white ribbon cable which is for the left hand side USB board

The big 4-way plug is the speaker connector.

The small ribbon cable is for the power status, HDD status and the charging LED’s.

Ok, on my model, GX631GW I had the exact same problem.

The keyboard was stuck to the battery and when I was trying to remove the keyboard it was lifting the battery up as well, right in the middle of the laptop.

After getting it apart I couldn’t find any trace of an adhesive or double sided tape.

My guess is that the standoff that is embedded on the keyboard side gets stuck inside the opening in the battery frame.

The easiest way to free them is to start by going to the left side of the laptop, prop the two parts apart just far enough so that with a light you can inspect the inside.

Verify that your laptop is stuck at the same point as mine!

Then, with a long, thin, plastic tool, wedge between the standoff and the battery frame and twist to push them apart (imagine twisting a flat head between two surfaces, it should cam and push the two apart).

Then continue on to the next steps in the guide.

This is a crucial step, ensure that you don’t snag the ribbon cables at this point because parts can be difficult to get.

I'm really interested to know the difference in performance between the standard 16GB dual channel memory setup and an upgraded version to 40GB, would you mind sharing a benchmark that includes your RAM speed? It would be a huge job to install new memory just for it to be inadequate from a performance standpoint and I'd like to only have to open up the laptop once as I'm already doing a battery replacement.

Thanks for any advice.