Librem 14 - keyboard matrix short + battery/jack fault, parts needed

Thank you for your response and teaching me about the CR batteries. I’m unsure why the CMOS battery was removed / misplaced, but I intend to purchase a replacement now that I know the specifications.

The barrel jack is working, however similar to this post (/librem-14-power-jack-replacement/28024) mine sparking makes me want to replace it rather than keep testing it. These EIA-1 barrel jacks (used in video tape recorders) appear to be replaceable: https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/same-sky-formerly-cui-devices/PJ-023/408471

The USB-C power (on right-hand-side of the device) needs a power supply of 19v 60w (/purism-usb-c-type-universal-chargers/). I have tried with a 100w 20V 5A USB-C power supply, however the LED doesn’t illuminate to show that it’s charging.

Battery power connector (that the 11pin battery plug connects into) appears to be easily broken / damaged when diagnosing the battery faults. From my rough measurements it appears to match the specification for SM11B-SRSS-TB. I was hoping that Purism could confirm the specifications however I read that another customer resorted to cutting the wires and soldering directly to the board.

The battery appears to degrade quickly. I assume there is a short if the DC input is sparking, so I do not want to risk damaging the mainboard and have powered off the device after extracting the following information.

coreboot_util.sh

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##       Purism Librem coreboot Utility         
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#    Device: Librem 14
#    Serial: 123456789
#  Firmware: PureBoot (coreboot+Heads)
#   Version: Release 30.1 
################################################

sudo ./purism_ectool info

board: purism/librem_14
version: 1.14_2025-11-25

neofetch

dmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmd   thom@personal-librem14 
dNm//////////////////////////////////mNd   ---------------------- 
dNd                                  dNd   OS: PureOS 11 (Crimson) x86_64 
dNd                                  dNd   Host: librem_14 1.0 
dNd                                  dNd   Kernel: 6.1.0-49-amd64 
dNd                                  dNd   Uptime: 57 mins 
dNd                                  dNd   Packages: 1834 (dpkg) 
dNd                                  dNd   Shell: bash 5.2.15 
dNd                                  dNd   Resolution: 1920x1080 
dNd                                  dNd   DE: GNOME 43.9 
dNm//////////////////////////////////mNd   WM: Mutter 
dmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmd   WM Theme: Adwaita 
                                           Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
                                           Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3] 
                                           Terminal: gnome-terminal 
                                           CPU: Intel i7-10710U (12) @ 4.700GHz 
                                           GPU: Intel Comet Lake UHD Graphics 
                                           Memory: 2526MiB / 7813MiB