If after changing the CMOS battery your computer won’t boot, this article will help you fix the problem. CMOS battery provides continuous power to the BIOS chip. BIOS chip stores all the BIOS ...

Some key computer functions are governed by the CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor), a chip on your motherboard powered by a small battery. The CMOS governs things like the system time ...

The complementary metal-oxide semiconductor, or CMOS, stores the system date and time as well as other settings on your Gateway laptop. The CMOS is powered by a small battery. If this battery runs ...

CMOS battery is a piece of hardware that powers the BIOS firmware in a laptop. Even when your computer is not plugged into a power source, BIOS must continue to function (It instructs the system ...

These symptoms suggest that the BIOS battery, a coin-shaped 3-V battery located on the computer's motherboard, is running low. Reboot your computer and press "F10" or "Delete" when prompted to ...

This small battery on your motherboard stores BIOS settings, and resetting it can clear any configurations that might be ...

First when I was getting BIOS reset I thought the battery was bad - so I changed the battery and there seems to be some problem since every time I unplug the computer it loses all the settings.< ...

he would have to open the laptop case and short the CMOS reset pins or pull the CMOS battery. The process is quite tedious, so he prefers to use a simpler method, a parallel loopback plug.

This process involved removing the case of the computer to find the minuscule CMOS battery as well as a near-microscopic yellow piece of plastic, both on the motherboard. The plastic needed to be ...

Over time, all rechargeable batteries degrade, but how you use your laptop plays a big part in how quickly it happens.