The motherboard is a very technical piece of hardware with many small electronic devices scattered around it, providing power and sending information to the rest of the computer. However, did you know ...

A CMOS battery is a small, circular battery that is responsible for powering the Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) chip in a computer’s motherboard. It is essential for maintaining the ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

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 low ...

A CMOS checksum error usually means the CMOS battery is weak, BIOS settings are corrupted, or the BIOS update failed. The most reliable fix is to replace the CMOS ...